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1Therefore, those who belong to Christ Jesus are no longer under God’s judgment.
2The law of the Spirit who gives life through Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
3God did what the written law was not able to do, since it was weakened by our sinful desires. God sent his Son to be an offering for sin. He sent him in human form like those who are susceptible to sin. When God did this, he passed judgment against sin so that it could no longer control people through their wrong desires.
4Instead, we are now able to do all the right things that the law requires, because we’re not controlled by those desires. We’re controlled by the Spirit.
5Those who do live under the control of their wrong desires think about what sin wants. But those who live under the control of the Spirit think about what the Spirit wants.
6If a person’s mind is ruled by their wrong desires, that brings death. But if a person’s mind is ruled by the Spirit, that brings life and peace.
7The mind that’s ruled by wrong desires is at war with God. It doesn’t obey God’s law, because it can’t.
8Those who are under the power of their desires can’t please God.
9If the Spirit of God truly does live in you, you’re not ruled by your desires—you’re ruled by the Spirit. Anyone who doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ doesn’t belong to Christ.
10But if Christ lives in you, then even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit will give you life because you’ve been made right with God.
11If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then the one who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
12Brothers and sisters, we have a duty to not live the way our wrong desires would lead us.
13If you live that way, you’ll die. But if, by the Spirit’s power, you put to death the wrong things people do in their bodies, then you will live.
14All who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
15The Spirit you received doesn’t make you slaves who live in fear again. Instead, the Spirit you received has made you God’s genuine child by adoption. And the Spirit leads us to call out to God, “Abba , Father.”
16The Spirit himself joins with our spirits to assure us that we are God’s children.
17And since we are his children, we’re going to inherit everything that Christ will also inherit. But we must share in his sufferings if we also want to share in his glory.
18What we’re suffering now isn’t even worth comparing with the glory that’s coming in the future.
19Everything God created is looking forward to the time when his children will appear in their full and final glory.
20The created world was held back from fulfilling its purpose, not because it chose that, but because the one who held it back planned things that way. God wanted
21creation to live in the hope that it would be set free from decay and enter into the same freedom and glory that his children have.
22We know that right up to the present time, the whole creation has been groaning as if it were giving birth to a child.
23And that’s not all. We have the first signs of what the Spirit will give us fully, but we also are groaning inside as we wait for our adoption to be finalized.
24We can foresee the time when God will set our bodies free. That’s the hope we had when we were saved.
25But hope that can be seen isn’t really hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we don’t have yet, we wait for it patiently.
26In the same way, the Holy Spirit helps us when we are weak. We don’t know what we should pray for, but the Spirit himself prays for us with groans that are too deep for words.
27God, who looks into our hearts, knows the mind of the Spirit, and the Spirit prays for God’s people just as God wants him to pray.
28We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who are called according to his purpose.
29God planned that those he already knew ahead of time would become like his Son. In that way, Christ would become the first and most honored among many brothers and sisters.
30God made these plans for people to become like his Son, and he called those people to be saved. Then he made those people right with himself, and finally, he them gave his glory.
31What should we say then? Since God is on our side, who can stand against us?
32God didn’t spare his own Son; instead, he gave him up for all of us. How will God not also, along with his Son, freely give us all things?
33Who can bring any charge against God’s chosen ones? It’s God who makes us right with himself.
34Then who can say we’re guilty? No one. Christ Jesus, who died for us—indeed, who was raised for us—is at the right hand of God praying for us.
35Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble or hard times or harm or hunger or nakedness or danger or war?
36It is written,
“Because of you, we face death all day long.
We’re regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37No! In all these things we are more than conquerors through Christ who loved us.
38I’m convinced that nothing will ever be able to separate us from God’s love—not death or life, angels or demons, the present or the future, and no powers,
39heights, or depths, or anything else in all creation. That’s all because of what Christ Jesus our Lord has done.