8:1There is therefore now nothing of condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus: who do not walk according to the flesh. 8:2For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and of death. 8:3For what was impossible for the law, in that it was weakened through the flesh: God, sending his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin and on account of sin, condemned sin in the flesh, so that the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. 8:5For those who are according to the flesh, savour the things which are of the flesh: but those who are according to the spirit, sense the things which are of the spirit.
8:6For the prudence of the flesh is death: but the prudence of the spirit, life and peace: since the wisdom of the flesh is hostile to God: for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be. 8:8And those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 8:9But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit: if however the Spirit of God dwells in you. 8:9But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this man is not his. 8:10But if Christ is in you, the body indeed is dead on account of sin, but the spirit lives on account of justification.
8:11But if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you: he who raised Jesus Christ from the dead will give life also to your mortal bodies, on account of his Spirit dwelling in you. 8:12Therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh, that we should live according to the flesh. 8:13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die: but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the flesh, you will live. 8:14For whoever are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 8:15For you have not received a spirit of slavery again in fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption of sons, in which we cry out: "Abba" (Father).
8:16For the Spirit himself renders testimony to our spirit that we are sons of God. 8:17And if sons, heirs too: heirs indeed of God, and co-heirs of Christ: if however we suffer together so that we may also be glorified together. 8:18For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy in comparison with the glory to come, which will be revealed in us. 8:19For the expectation of the creature awaits the revelation of the sons of God. 8:20For the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly, but on account of him who subjected it in hope: because the creature itself too will be freed from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the sons of God.
8:22For we know that every creature groans, and is in labour up till now. 8:23And not only it, but we ourselves too, having the firstfruits of the spirit: we ourselves too groan within ourselves, awaiting the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body. 8:24For by hope we have been made safe. 8:24But hope which is seen is not hope: for what anyone sees, why does he hope for it? 8:25But if we hope for what we do not see: we wait for it through patience. 8:26And likewise the Spirit too helps our weakness: for what we should pray for, as we ought, we do not know: but the Spirit himself pleads for us with groanings that cannot be told.
8:27And he who searches hearts, knows what the Spirit desires: because according to God he pleads for the saints. 8:28And we know that for those loving God all things work together for good, for those who according to purpose are called saints. 8:29For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to become conformed to the image of his Son, so that he himself may be the firstborn among many brothers. 8:30And those whom he predestined, these he also called: and those whom he called, these he also justified: and those whom he justified, those he also glorified. 8:31What then shall we say to these things? 8:31If God is for us, who is against us?
8:32He who did not spare even his own Son, but handed him over for us all: how has he not also given us all things with him? 8:33Who will bring accusation against the chosen of God? 8:33It is God who justifies, who is there to condemn? 8:34Christ Jesus, who died, rather who also rose again, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. 8:35Who then will separate us from the love of Christ? 8:35Tribulation? 8:35Or distress? 8:35Or hunger? 8:35Or nakedness? 8:35Or danger? 8:35Or persecution? 8:35Or the sword? 8:36(Just as it has been written: "Because on account of you we are put to death all the day: we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.") But in all these things we overcome on account of him who loved us.
8:38For I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor strength, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.