⁵Don’t live under the control of your sinful nature. If you do, you will think about what your sinful nature wants. Live under the control of the Holy Spirit. If you do, you will think about what the Spirit wants.

⁶The way a sinful person thinks leads to death. But the mind controlled by the Spirit brings life and peace. ⁷The sinful mind is at war with God. It does not obey God’s law. It can’t. ⁸Those who are controlled by their sinful nature can’t please God.

⁹But your sinful nature does not control you. The Holy Spirit controls you. The Spirit of God lives in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ.

¹⁰Christ lives in you. So your body is dead because of sin. But your spirit is alive because you have been made right with God. ¹¹The Spirit of the One who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you. So the God who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your bodies, which are going to die. He will do this by the power of his Spirit, who lives in you.

¹²Brothers and sisters, we have a duty. Our duty is not to live under the control of our sinful nature. ¹³If you live under the control of your sinful nature, you will die. But by the power of the Holy Spirit you can put to death the sins your body commits. Then you will live.

¹⁴Those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. ¹⁵You didn’t receive a spirit that makes you a slave to fear once again. Instead you received the Holy Spirit, who makes you God’s child. By the Spirit’s power we call God “Abba.” Abba means Father. ¹⁶The Spirit himself joins with our spirits. Together they give witness that we are God’s children.

¹⁷As his children, we will receive all that he has for us. We will share what Christ receives. But we must share in his sufferings if we want to share in his glory.

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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!”