Romans 8:5-25

⁵For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

⁶For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

⁷Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

⁸So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.

⁹You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

¹⁰And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

¹¹But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

¹²So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

¹³For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

¹⁴And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

¹⁵For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.

¹⁶The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God:

¹⁷And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.

¹⁸I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.

¹⁹For the strong desire of every living thing is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.

²⁰For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope

²¹That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.

²²For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.

²³And not only so, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we have sorrow in our minds, waiting for the time when we will take our place as sons, that is, the salvation of our bodies.

²⁴For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?

²⁵But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.