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Life in the Spirit

So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

Deliverance from Bondage

Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

And because you belong to him, the powera of the life-giving Spirit has freed youb from the power of sin that leads to death.

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For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

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The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature.c So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.

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For 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,

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He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit.

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so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit.

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For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.

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For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,

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For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will.

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because 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,

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That’s why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God.

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and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.)

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However, 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.

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And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you lifed because you have been made right with God.

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

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The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

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But 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.

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Therefore, dear brothers and sisters,e you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do.

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So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh —

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For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature,f you will live.

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for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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For all who are led by the Spirit of God are childreng of God.

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For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

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So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children.h Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”i

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For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”

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For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children.

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The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God,

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And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.

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and 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.

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The Future Glory

Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.

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For 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.

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For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.

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For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.

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Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope,

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For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope

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the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.

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that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

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For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

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For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.

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And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children,j including the new bodies he has promised us.

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And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

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We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hopek for it.

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For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?

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But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)

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But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

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And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.

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Our Victory in Christ

In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;

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And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believersl in harmony with God’s own will.

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and 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.

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And we know that God causes everything to work togetherm for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

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And 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.

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For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstbornn among many brothers and sisters.

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For 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 brethren;

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And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory.

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and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

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Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love

What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?

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What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

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Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?

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He 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?

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Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one — for God himself has given us right standing with himself.

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Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;

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Who then will condemn us? No one — for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.

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who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

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Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?

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Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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(As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”o)

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Just as it is written,
“FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;
WE WERE CONSIDERED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”

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No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

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But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

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And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,p neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow — not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.

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For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

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No power in the sky above or in the earth below — indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

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