¹There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus , who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit .[#8:1 NU omits “who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit”]

²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death .

³For what the law couldn’t do , in that it was weak through the flesh , God did , sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh ,

⁴that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us who don’t 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 the mind of the flesh is death , but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace ;

⁷because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God , for it is not subject to God ’s law , neither indeed can it be .

⁸Those who are in the flesh can ’t please God .

⁹But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit , if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you . But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ , he is not his .

¹⁰If Christ is in you , the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness .

¹¹But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you , he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you .

¹²So then , brothers, we are debtors , not to the flesh , to live after the flesh .

¹³For if you live after the flesh , you must 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 children of God .

¹⁵For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear , but you received the Spirit of adoption , by whom we cry , “Abba! Father !”[#8:15 Abba is an Aramaic word for “Father” or “Daddy”, which can be used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.]

¹⁶The Spirit himself testifies 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 with him .

¹⁸For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed towards us .

¹⁹For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

²⁰For the creation was subjected to vanity , not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it , in hope

²¹that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God .

²²For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now .

²³Not only so , but ourselves also , who have the first fruits of the Spirit , even we ourselves groan within ourselves , waiting for adoption , the redemption of our body .

²⁴For we were saved in hope , but hope that is seen is not hope . For who hopes for that which he sees?

²⁵But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience .

²⁶In the same way , the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought . But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can ’t be uttered.

²⁷He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit ’s mind , because he makes intercession for the saints according to God .

²⁸We know that all things work together for good for those who love God , for those who are 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 amongst many brothers.[#8:29 The word for “brothers” here and where context allows may also be correctly translated “brothers and sisters” or “siblings.”]

³⁰Whom he predestined , those he also called . Whom he called , those he also justified . Whom he justified , those he also glorified .

³¹What then shall we say about these things ? If God is for us , who can be against us ?

³²He who didn’t spare his own Son , but delivered him up for us all , how would he not also with him freely give us all things ?

³³Who could bring a charge against God ’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies .

³⁴Who is he who condemns ? It is Christ who died , yes rather , who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God , who also makes intercession for us .

³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? Could oppression, or anguish , or persecution , or famine , or nakedness , or peril , or sword ?

³⁶Even as it is written ,

“For your sake we are killed all day long .

We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter .”

³⁷No , 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 things present , nor things to come , nor powers ,

³⁹nor height , nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God ’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord .