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 set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: he sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, and condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, on the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, 7 because the mind set on the flesh is hostility toward God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it. 8 And 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. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, yet the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 And 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 So then, brothers, we are debtors, but 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 leading back to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

17 And if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory to be revealed in us. 19 For creation eagerly awaits the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For creation was subjected to futility, not willingly but because of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that creation itself will also be set free from slavery to decay into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together and suffering the pains of childbirth until now. 23 And not only creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly, eagerly awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body. 24 For in hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what is seen? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

26 In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes with inexpressible groanings. 27 And the one who searches hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to God’s will.

28 And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those he predestined he also called, and those he called he also justified, and those he justified he also glorified.

31 What shall we say, then, to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also graciously give us all things with him? 33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies. 34 Who is the one who condemns? Christ is the one who died, and more than that, was raised, who is also at the right hand of God and intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Affliction, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, or sword?

36 As it is written,

37 But in all these things we are more than conquerors through the one who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor rulers, neither things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.