¹THERE is therefore no condemnation to those who walk in the flesh after the Spirit of Jesus Messiah. ²For the law of the Spirit of life which is in Jesus Messiah has made you free from the law of sin and death. ³For the law was weak through the weakness of the flesh, so God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin, in order to condemn sin by means of his flesh, ⁴That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us; for we do not walk after the things of the flesh, but after the Spirit. ⁵For they who are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they who are after the Spirit mind the things of the Spirit. ⁶To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace, ⁷Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, because it cannot be. ⁸So then, they who are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if the Spirit of God truly lives inside you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Messiah, he does not belong to him.

¹⁰And if Messiah is inside you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹And if the Spirit of him who raised our Lord Jesus Messiah from the dead lives inside you, so he who raised Jesus Messiah from the dead will also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that lives inside you. ¹²Therefore, my brothers, we are not indebted to the flesh to live after the flesh. ¹³For if you live after the flesh, you will die; but if you, through the Spirit, subdue the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴Those who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

¹⁵For you have not received the spirit of bondage, to be in fear again; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Abon, Father, our Father. ¹⁶And this Spirit bears witness to our spirit, that we are the children of God; ¹⁷And if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Messiah; so that if we suffer with him, we will also be glorified with him. ¹⁸For I think that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed in us. ¹⁹For the earnest expectation of all mankind waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. ²⁰For man was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who gave him free will in the hope he would choose rightly, ²¹Because man himself will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

²²For we know that the whole creation groans and labors in pain to this day. ²³And not only they, but also ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we groan inside ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is, the salvation of our bodies. ²⁴For we live in hope; but hope that is seen is not hope: for if we see it, why should we yet hope? ²⁵But if we hope for that which we do not see, then we wait for it in patience.

²⁶Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses; for we do not know what is right and proper for us to pray; but the Spirit prays for us with that earnestness which cannot be described. ²⁷And he who searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, for the Spirit prays for the saints according to the will of God. ²⁸And we know that those who love God are helped by him in everything for good.

²⁹He knew them in advance and he marked them with the likeness of the image of his Son that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰Furthermore, those whom he marked in advance, he has called, and those whom he has called, he has declared righteous, and those whom he has declared righteous, he has glorified.

³¹What then will we say concerning these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? ³²If he did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, why will he not freely give us all things with him? ³³Who is to complain against the chosen ones of God? It is God who justifies. ³⁴Who is he who condemns? It is Messiah who died and rose again, and he is at the right hand of God making intercession for us.

³⁵What will separate me from the love of Messiah? Tribulation or imprisonment or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶As it is written, For your sake we die every day, and we are accounted as lambs for the slaughter. ³⁷But 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 empires nor armies nor things present nor things to come ³⁹Nor height nor depth nor anything else created will be able to separate me from the love of God which is in Jesus Messiah our Lord.