Romans 8:5-27

⁵Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

⁶Further, the mindset of the flesh yields death, but the mindset of the Spirit yields life and peace;

⁷because the mindset of the flesh represents enmity against God, since it does not submit to God's law, nor indeed can it.

⁸So, those who are ‘in flesh’ cannot please God.

⁹You, however, are not ‘in flesh’ but ‘in Spirit’, if indeed God's Spirit dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

¹⁰But if Christ is in you, the body is dead through sin, but the Spirit is life through righteousness.

¹¹And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He who raised the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you.

¹²So then, brothers, we have no obligation to the flesh, to live according to it;

¹³because if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die; but if you put to death the practices of the body, by the Spirit, you will live.

¹⁴Because as many as are led by God's Spirit, these are God's sons

¹⁵—you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!”

¹⁶That Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are God's children

¹⁷—if children, also heirs: heirs of God and coheirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him).

¹⁸I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is going to be revealed in us.

¹⁹You see, the creation waits with eager anticipation for the revelation of God's sons;

²⁰because without choice the creation was subjected to futility, due to the One who did the subjecting, based on the hope

²¹that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the freedom of the glory of God's children.

²²Yes, we know that the whole creation has been groaning and in labor pains until now.

²³Not only that, we ourselves also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body.

²⁴Yes, we were saved in the hope, but a hope that is seen is not hope—why would anyone hope for what he sees?

²⁵But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it with endurance.

²⁶Likewise also the Spirit comes to the aid of the hope in our weaknesses, since we do not know what we need to pray for. Indeed the Spirit Himself intercedes on our behalf with inexpressible groanings,

²⁷while He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, since He prays for the saints in accordance with God.