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Life in the Spirit: Freedom and Adoption

Romans 8:1-17

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Chapter 8
1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed you from the law of sin and death. 3 For what was impossible for the law, in that it was weakened through the flesh, God has done: he sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, and condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who are according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit think about the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace. 7 because the mindset of the flesh is enmity toward God. For it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed is it able. 8 But those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this one is not his. 10 But if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who dwells in you. 12 Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery again into fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption as sons, by which we cry, "Abba! Father!" 16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. 17 but if children, also heirs—heirs indeed of God, but joint heirs of Christ—if indeed we suffer together so that we might also be glorified together.