⁹However, you are not ^ain the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God ^bdwells in you. But ^cif anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

¹⁰^aBut if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is ¹alive because of righteousness.

¹¹But if the Spirit of Him who ^araised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, ^bHe who raised ^cChrist Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies ¹through His Spirit who dwells in you.

¹²So then, brothers, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—

¹³for ^aif you are living according to the flesh, you ¹must die, but if by the Spirit you are ^bputting to death the ^cpractices of the body, you will live.

¹⁴For as many as are ^abeing led by the Spirit of God, these are ^bsons of God.

¹⁵For you ^ahave not received a spirit of slavery ¹leading to fear again, but you ^bhave received the Spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry out, “^cAbba! Father!”

¹⁶The Spirit Himself ^atestifies with our spirit that we are ^bchildren of God,

¹⁷and if children, also ^aheirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, ^bif indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

Present Suffering and Future Glory

¹⁸For I consider that the sufferings of this present time ^aare not worthy to be compared with the ^bglory that is to be revealed to us.

¹⁹For the ^aanxious longing of the creation eagerly waits for ^bthe revealing of the ^csons of God.

²⁰For the creation ^awas subjected to ^bfutility, not willingly, but ^cbecause of Him who subjected it, in hope

²¹¹that ^athe creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

²²For we know that the whole creation ^agroans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.

²³^aAnd not only this, but also we ourselves, having ^bthe first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves ^cgroan within ourselves, ^deagerly waiting for our adoption as sons, ^ethe redemption of our body.

²⁴For ^ain hope we were saved, but ^bhope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he already sees?

²⁵But ^aif we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we eagerly wait for it.

Read in Logos

Romans 8:15: For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Footnotes

1Lit life
1One early ms because of
1Or are going to
1Lit for fear again
1Or because

Cross references

a Rom 7:5
b John 14:23; Rom 8:11; 1 Cor 3:16; 6:19; 2 Cor 6:16; Gal 4:6; Phil 1:19; 2 Tim 1:14; 1 John 4:13
c John 14:17
a John 17:23; Gal 2:20; Eph 3:17; Col 1:27
a Acts 2:24; Rom 6:4
b John 5:21
c Rom 8:1, 2, 39; 16:3
a Rom 8:6
b Col 3:5
c Col 3:9
a Gal 5:18
b Hos 1:10; Matt 5:9; John 1:12; Rom 8:16, 19; 9:8, 26; 2 Cor 6:18; Gal 3:26; 1 John 3:1; Rev 21:7
a 2 Tim 1:7; Heb 2:15
b Rom 8:23; Gal 4:5f
c Mark 14:36; Gal 4:6
a Acts 5:32
b Hos 1:10; Matt 5:9; John 1:12; Rom 8:14, 19; 9:8, 26; 2 Cor 6:18; Gal 3:26; 1 John 3:1; Rev 21:7
a Acts 20:32; Gal 3:29; 4:7; Eph 3:6; Titus 3:7; Heb 1:14; Rev 21:7
b 2 Cor 1:5, 7; Phil 3:10; Col 1:24; 2 Tim 2:12; 1 Pet 4:13
a 2 Cor 4:17; 1 Pet 4:13
b Col 3:4; Titus 2:13; 1 Pet 1:5; 5:1
a Phil 1:20
b Rom 8:18; 1 Cor 1:7f; Col 3:4; 1 Pet 1:7, 13; 1 John 3:2
c Hos 1:10; Matt 5:9; John 1:12; Rom 8:14, 16; 9:8, 26; 2 Cor 6:18; Gal 3:26; 1 John 3:1; Rev 21:7
a Gen 3:17–19
b Ps 39:5f; Eccl 1:2
c Gen 3:17; 5:29
a Acts 3:21; 2 Pet 3:13; Rev 21:1
a Jer 12:4, 11
a Rom 5:3
b Rom 8:16; 2 Cor 1:22
c 2 Cor 5:2, 4
d Rom 8:15, 19, 25; Gal 5:5
e Rom 7:24
a Rom 8:20; 1 Thess 5:8; Titus 3:7
b Rom 4:18; 2 Cor 5:7; Heb 11:1
a 1 Thess 1:3