Romans 8

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¹There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. ✦ ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. ✦ ³For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, ✦ ⁴that the righteous 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 live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ✦ ⁶For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ✦ ⁷Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. ✦ ⁸So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. ✦ ⁹But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ✦ ¹⁰And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ✦ ¹¹But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. ✦ ¹²Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ✦ ¹³For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ✦ ¹⁴For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. ✦ ¹⁵For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” ✦ ¹⁶The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, ✦ ¹⁷and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. ✦ ¹⁸For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. ✦ ¹⁹For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. ✦ ²⁰For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; ✦ ²¹because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. ✦ ²²For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. ✦ ²³Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. ✦ ²⁴For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? ✦ ²⁵But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. ✦ ²⁶Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. ✦ ²⁷Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. ✦ ²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. ✦ ²⁹For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. ✦ ³⁰Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. ✦ ³¹What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ✦ ³²He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? ✦ ³³Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. ✦ ³⁴Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. ✦ ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ✦ ³⁶As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” ✦ ³⁷Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ✦ ³⁸For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ✦ ³⁹nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which 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

Christ at the center

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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