Romans 8:1–11

Life Through the Spirit

8Therefore, there is now no condemnation^g for those who are in Christ Jesus,^{h 2}because through Christ Jesusⁱ the law of the Spirit who gives life^j has set you^a free^k from the law of sin^l and death. ³For what the law was powerless^m to do because it was weakened by the flesh,^bn God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh^o to be a sin offering.^cp And so he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴in order that the righteous requirement^q of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.^r

⁵Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires;^s but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.^{t 6}The mind governed by the flesh is death,^u but the mind governed by the Spirit is life^v and peace. ⁷The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;^w it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. ⁸Those who are in the realm of the flesh^x cannot please God.

⁹You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh^y but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.^z And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,^a they do not belong to Christ. ¹⁰But if Christ is in you,^b then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life^d because of righteousness. ¹¹And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead^c is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies^d because of^e his Spirit who lives in you.