1So now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
3The law could not do it, because it was weak through the flesh. So God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, and he condemned sin in the flesh.
4He did this so that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5Those who live after the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh. But those who live after the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
6To be minded after the flesh is death, but to be minded after the Spirit is life and peace.
7For the mind set on the flesh is hostile to God. It does not obey the law of God, and it cannot.
8So those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9But you are not in the flesh. You are in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.
10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11If the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead lives in you, then he who raised up Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies by his Spirit who lives in you.
12So then, brothers and sisters, we owe a debt, but not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13For if you live after the flesh, you will die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.
15You have not received the spirit of slavery, to be afraid again. You have received the Spirit of adoption, and by him we cry, "Abba, Father."
16The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.
17And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, so that we may also be glorified with him.
18For I count that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
19For the creation waits with eager longing for the sons of God to be revealed.
20For the creation was made subject to emptiness, not by its own choice, but because of him who subjected it, in hope.
21The creation itself will also be set free from the slavery of decay into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22For we know that the whole creation groans together and is in pain together until now.
23And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit. We ourselves groan within ourselves, as we wait for the adoption, that is, the redemption of our body.
24For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. Why would a man still hope for what he sees?
25But if we hope for what we do not see, then we wait for it with patience.
26In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself prays for us with groanings that cannot be put into words.
27And he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because the Spirit prays 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 called according to his purpose.
29For those he knew beforehand, he also marked out beforehand to be made like the image of his Son, so that his Son might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
30And those he marked out beforehand, he also called. And those he called, he also justified. And those he justified, he also glorified.
31What shall we say then about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32He did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all. How will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?
33Who will bring any charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.
34Who is the one who condemns? It is Christ who died, and more than that, who is risen again, who is at the right hand of God, and who also prays for us.
35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
36As it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We are counted as sheep for the slaughter."
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.