1 | There is
therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit. |
2 | For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath
made me free from the law of sin and death. |
3 | For what the law could not do, in that it was weak
through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and
for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: |
4 | That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who
walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. |
5 | For they that are after the flesh do mind the things
of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. |
6 | For to be carnally minded
is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. |
7 | Because the carnal mind is enmity
against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can
be. |
8 | So then they that
are in the flesh cannot please God. |
9 | But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the
Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is
none of his. |
10 | And if
Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life
because of righteousness. |
11 |
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you,
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by
his Spirit that dwelleth in you. |
12 | Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live
after the flesh. |
13 | For
if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do
mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. |
14 | For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are
the sons of God. |
15 | For
ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received
the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. |
16 | The Spirit itself beareth witness with
our spirit, that we are the children of God: |
17 | And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also
glorified together. |
18 |
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be
compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. |
19 | For the earnest expectation of the
creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. |
20 | For the creature was made subject to
vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in
hope, |
21 | Because the
creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the
glorious liberty of the children of God. |
22 | For we know that the whole creation groaneth and
travaileth in pain together until now. |
23 | And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the
firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting
for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. |
24 | For we are saved by hope: but hope
that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? |
25 | But if we hope for that
we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. |
26 | Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:
for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself
maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. |
27 | And he that searcheth the hearts
knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the
saints according to the will of God. |
28 | And we know that all things work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. |
29 | For whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the
firstborn among many brethren. |
30
| Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he
called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also
glorified. |
31 | What shall
we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? |
32 | He that spared not his own
Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things? |
33 |
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that
justifieth. |
34 | Who is he
that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who
is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. |
35 | Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? |
36
| As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are
accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psa 44:22
|
37 | Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors
through him that loved us. |
38
| For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, |
39 | Nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord. |