Romans 8:12–39

¹²Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.^{e 13}For if you live according to the flesh, you will die;^f but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body,^g you will live.^h

¹⁴For those who are led by the Spirit of Godⁱ are the children of God.^{j 15}The Spirit^k you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again;^l rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.^f And by him we cry, “Abba,^g Father.”^{m 16}The Spirit himself testifies with our spiritⁿ that we are God’s children.^{o 17}Now if we are children, then we are heirs^p—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings^q in order that we may also share in his glory.^r

Present Suffering and Future Glory

¹⁸I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.^{s 19}For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God^t to be revealed. ²⁰For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,^u in hope ²¹that^h the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay^v and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.^w

²²We know that the whole creation has been groaning^x as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,^y groan^z inwardly as we wait eagerly^a for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.^{b 24}For in this hope we were saved.^c But hope that is seen is no hope at all.^d Who hopes for what they already have? ²⁵But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.^e

²⁶In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit^f himself intercedes for us^g through wordless groans. ²⁷And he who searches our hearts^h knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedesⁱ for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

²⁸And we know that in all things God works for the good^j of those who love him, whoⁱ have been called^k according to his purpose.^{l 29}For those God foreknew^m he also predestinedⁿ to be conformed to the image of his Son,^o that he might be the firstborn^p among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰And those he predestined,^q he also called;^r those he called, he also justified;^s those he justified, he also glorified.^t

More Than Conquerors

³¹What, then, shall we say in response to these things?^u If God is for us,^v who can be against us?^{w 32}He who did not spare his own Son,^x but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³Who will bring any charge^y against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴Who then is the one who condemns?^z No one. Christ Jesus who died^a—more than that, who was raised to life^b—is at the right hand of God^c and is also interceding for us.^{d 35}Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?^e Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?^{f 36}As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^jg

³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors^h through him who loved us.^{i 38}For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^k neither the present nor the future,^j nor any powers,^{k 39}neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God^l that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.^m