Romans 8 — FBV
8Verse 1So there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.Verse 2The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.Verse 3What the law couldn't do because it was powerless due to our sinful nature,+God was able to do! By sending his own Son in human form, God dealt with the whole problem of sin+and destroyed sin's power in our sinful human nature.Verse 4In this way we could fulfill the good requirements of the law by following the Spirit and not our sinful nature.Verse 5Those who follow their sinful nature are preoccupied with sinful things, but those who follow the Spirit concentrate on spiritual things.Verse 6The sinful human mind results in death, but having the mind led by the Spirit results in life and peace.Verse 7The sinful human mind is hostile to God because it refuses to obey the law of God—in fact it never can,Verse 8and those who follow their sinful nature can never please God.Verse 9But you're not following your sinful nature, but the Spirit—if it's true that the Spirit of God is living in you. For those that don't have the Spirit of Christ in them don't belong to him.Verse 10However, if Christ is in you, even though your body is going to die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you're now right with God.Verse 11The Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. He who raised Jesus from the dead will also give life to your dead bodies through his Spirit that lives in you.Verse 12So brothers and sisters, we don't have to follow+our sinful nature that operates according to our human desires.Verse 13For if you live under the control of your sinful nature, you're going to die. But if you follow the way of the Spirit, putting to death the evil things you do, then you will live.Verse 14All those who are led by the Spirit of God are God's children.Verse 15You were not given a spirit to enslave and terrify you once more. No, what you received was the spirit that makes you children in God's family. Now we can shout out, “God is our Father!”Verse 16The Spirit himself agrees with us+that we're God's children.Verse 17If we're his children, then we're his heirs. We are heirs of God, and heirs together with Christ. But if we want to share in his glory we must share in his sufferings.Verse 18Yet I'm convinced that what we suffer in the present is nothing compared to the future glory that will be revealed to us.Verse 19All of creation is patiently waiting, longing for God to reveal his children.Verse 20For God allowed the purpose of creation to be frustrated.Verse 21But creation itself waits in hope for the time when it will be set free from the slavery of decay and share the glorious freedom of God's children.Verse 22We know that all creation groans with longing, suffering birth-pains even up till now.Verse 23Not only creation, but we too, who have a foretaste of the Spirit, we groan inwardly as we wait for God to “adopt” us—the redemption of our bodies.Verse 24For we were saved by hope. Yet hope that's already seen isn't hope at all. Who hopes for what they can already see?Verse 25Since we're hoping for what we haven't yet seen, we wait for it patiently.Verse 26Similarly the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We don't know how to speak with God, but the Spirit himself intercedes with and through us by groans that can't be put into words.Verse 27The one who examines the minds of everyone knows the Spirit's motives,+because the Spirit pleads God's cause on behalf of the believers.Verse 28We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, those whom he has called to be part of his plan.Verse 29For God, choosing them in advance, set them apart to be like his Son, so that the Son would be the first of many brothers and sisters.Verse 30Those that he chose, he also called; and those that he called, he also made right; and those that he made right, he also glorified.Verse 31So what's our response to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us?Verse 32God, who did not hold back his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, won't he also freely give us everything?Verse 33Who can accuse God's special people of anything? It's God who sets us right,Verse 34so who can condemn us? It's Christ Jesus who died—more importantly, who was raised from the dead—who stands at God's right-hand, presenting our case.Verse 35Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can oppression, distress, or persecution? Or hunger, poverty, danger, or violence?Verse 36Just as Scripture says, “For your sake we're in danger of being killed all the time. We're treated like sheep to be slaughtered.”+Verse 37No—in all that happens to us we're more than conquerors through him who loved us.Verse 38I'm absolutely convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor devils, neither the present nor the future, nor powers,Verse 39neither height nor depth, in fact nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.