Romans 8

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¹Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus. ✦ ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. ✦ ³For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, ✦ ⁴so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ✦ ⁵For those who are in accord with the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are in accord with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ✦ ⁶For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, ✦ ⁷because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, ✦ ⁸and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. ✦ ⁹However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. ✦ ¹⁰If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. ✦ ¹¹But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. ✦ ¹²So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— ✦ ¹³for if you are living in accord with the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ✦ ¹⁴For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons and daughters of God. ✦ ¹⁵For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons and daughters by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” ✦ ¹⁶The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, ✦ ¹⁷and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. ✦ ¹⁸For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. ✦ ¹⁹For the eagerly awaiting creation waits for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God. ✦ ²⁰For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope ✦ ²¹that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. ✦ ²²For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. ✦ ²³And not only that, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons and daughters, the redemption of our body. ✦ ²⁴For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? ✦ ²⁵But if we hope for what we do not see, through perseverance we wait eagerly for it. ✦ ²⁶Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; ✦ ²⁷and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. ✦ ²⁸And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. ✦ ²⁹For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters; ✦ ³⁰and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. ✦ ³¹What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? ✦ ³²He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? ✦ ³³Who will bring charges against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; ✦ ³⁴who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, but rather, was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. ✦ ³⁵Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ✦ ³⁶Just as it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We were regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” ✦ ³⁷But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. ✦ ³⁸For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, ✦ ³⁹nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ✦

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Concept Abba — Father Concept The Spirit of Christ

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Rom 8 ·54 Gal 5 ·18 Rom 5 ·17 1 Pet 1 ·15 Eph 1 ·15 1 Jn 4 ·15 2 Cor 5 ·14 Rom 7 ·14

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Paul unfolds the gospel in full: Christ our righteousness received by faith, the second Adam in whom many are made righteous, in whose death and resurrection we are buried and raised.

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