Romans 8:5-25

⁵For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

⁶for the mind of the flesh is death, and the mind of the Spirit — life and peace;

⁷because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,

⁸for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

⁹And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ — this one is not His;

¹⁰and if Christ is in you, the body, indeed, is dead because of sin, and the Spirit is life because of righteousness,

¹¹and if the Spirit of Him who did raise up Jesus out of the dead doth dwell in you, He who did raise up the Christ out of the dead shall quicken also your dying bodies, through His Spirit dwelling in you.

¹²So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

¹³for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;

¹⁴for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;

¹⁵for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, 'Abba — Father.'

¹⁶The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;

¹⁷and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ — if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

¹⁸For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory about to be revealed in us;

¹⁹for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God;

²⁰for to vanity was the creation made subject — not of its will, but because of Him who did subject it — in hope,

²¹that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

²²for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.

²³And not only so, but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting — the redemption of our body;

²⁴for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for it?

²⁵and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect it.