1So now, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because they don't live by their sinful desires but by the Spirit.
2Because the law of the Spirit, which brings life in Christ Jesus, has set me free from the law of sin and death.
3God did what the law could not do, because the law was weak due to human sinfulness. God sent his own Son in a body like our sinful bodies, and as a sacrifice for sin, he condemned sin in the human body.
4He did this so that we, who live by the Spirit and not by sinful desires, might fulfill the righteous requirements of the law.
5Those who live by their sinful nature focus on what their sinful nature desires, but those who live by the Spirit focus on what the Spirit desires.
6The mindset of the sinful nature is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace.
7because the mindset of the sinful nature is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it.
8Those who are controlled by their sinful nature cannot please God.
9However, you are not controlled by your sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you.
12Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but it is not to our sinful nature, to live according to it.
13For if you live according to your sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
15For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father!”
16The Spirit himself assures our spirit that we are God's children.
17Since we are children, we are also heirs. We are heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ. This is true if we share in his suffering, so that we may also share in his glory.
18I believe that the sufferings we experience now are as nothing compared to the glory that will be shown to us.
19All of creation is waiting eagerly for God's children to be revealed.
20For creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the one who subjected it, in the hope
21that creation itself will also be set free from the slavery of decay and brought into the glorious freedom of God's children.
22We know that all of creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
23And not only creation, but we ourselves, who have the first portion of the Spirit, also groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption as children, which is the redemption of our bodies.
24For we were saved with this hope. But hope that is seen is no longer hope. Who hopes for what they already see?
25But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.
26In the same way, the Spirit also helps us when we are weak, because we don’t know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself pleads with God for us, with groans that words cannot express.
27God, who examines our hearts, knows what the Spirit is thinking, because the Spirit pleads for God’s people in a way that agrees with God’s will.
28We know that in everything, God works for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose.
29For God knew his people in advance, and he decided in advance that they would be shaped to be like his Son. This is so that his Son would be the most important among many brothers and sisters.
30God decided in advance who would be like his Son, and he called them. He called them, and he declared them righteous. He declared them righteous, and he shared his glory with them.
31So what should we say about all this? If God is on our side, who can be against us?
32Since he did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, won’t he also freely give us everything else with his Son?
33Who can accuse God’s chosen people? God is the one who declares them righteous.
34Who then can condemn them? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, he was raised to life—and he is at God’s right side, pleading for us.
35What can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, or problems, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or war?
36It is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered like sheep to be slaughtered.”
37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither things happening now nor things to come, nor any powers,
39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.