1Those who live through in union withbecause of Jesus Christ have no condemnation. They do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 2The law of the Spirit gives us life through withbecause of Christ Jesus. It has set me free from the law of sin and death. 3God did what the Law could not do, because human nature was weak. He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering and do away with sin. So he condemned sin in sinful human nature. 4God did this so that the righteous requirements of the Law might be fully satisfied in us who live according to the Spirit, and not according to human nature. 5They who live according to flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh. They who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6The mind of sinful flesh fleshly thought means death; but the mind influenced by the Spirit gives life and peace. 7This is because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God. It is not subject to the law of God for it cannot be. 8Those influenced by the sinful flesh cannot please God. 9But you are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to him. 10If Christ is with you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit is life on account of righteousness. 11If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from among the dead dwells with you, he who raised Christ from among the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive. This is on account of his Spirit that dwells with you. 12So then, brothers we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to flesh human nature, 13for if you live according to flesh, you are about to die. If by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15For you have not received a spirit of bondage again causing fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Father, Father! Chaldee: Abba, meaning father. 16The Spirit itself Greek:autos ho pneumaitself the Spirit bears witness with our spirit mind and heart, that we are children of God. 17If children, then heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him we may also be glorified with him. 18I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation revelationdisclosure of the sons of God. 20For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it’s own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope. 21The creation will also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation groans and is in pain together until now. 23We also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption and the release from our bodies by ransom. 24We are saved by this hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For does a man hope for what he sees? 25If we hope for what we do not see, do we have patience to wait for it? 26Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses. We do not know what we should pray for, as we should. The Spirit of God makes intercession with groaning that cannot be spoken. 27So he who searches the hearts knows what is the inclination purposemind-set of the Spirit of God, because the Spirit makes intercession for the holy ones according to the will of God. 28We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. 29Those he first recognized, he ordained in advance that they be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30He ordained in advance the ones he called. He declared righteous the ones he called. He also glorified those he declared righteous. 31What shall we then say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He that did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against the ones God has chosen? It is God who justifies makes righteous. 34Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yes rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36It is written: »For your sake we are put to death all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter.« (Psalm 44:22) 37In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ephesians 6:12)