Life and power through God’s Spirit
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📚✭There is, therefore, now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not behave according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit✭. 2 📚✭For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the Law of sin and death. 3 📚For what the Law✭ could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sacrifice for sin, and so condemned sin in the flesh, 4 📚✭so that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not behave according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.5 📚For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh✭, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 📚The mind occupied with the flesh is death, but the mind occupied with the Spirit is life and peace. 7 📚Because the mind occupied with the flesh is hostile to God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, nor indeed can it be. 8 📚So then those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 📚But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in✭ you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him. 10 📚✭And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life✭ because of righteousness. 11 📚✭But if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies by his Spirit who lives in you.
12 📚✭Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 📚For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if through the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 📚✭For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of God. 15 📚✭For you did not receive again the spirit of bondage to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption✭, by whom we call out, “Abba, Father”. 16 📚✭The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit, that we are the children of God;
The believer’s future blessedness
17 📚and if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs✭ with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him✭, so that we may also be glorified✭ together.
18 📚✭For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 📚For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the revealing of the sons of God✭. 20 📚✭For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope, 21 📚because the creation itself shall also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 📚For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers birth pangs together until now. 23 📚✭And not only creation, but we ourselves who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, we also groan in ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is, the redemption of our body. 24 📚For we are saved in this hope. But hope that is seen is not hope, for why does a man still hope✭ for what he sees? 25 📚But if we hope for what we do not see, then we wait patiently for it.
The believer’s present blessedness
26 📚✭Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses; for we do not know how✭ to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans which cannot be expressed in words. 27 📚✭And he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because he intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
28 📚✭And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose. 29 📚✭For whom he foreknew✭, he also predestined✭ to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 📚Moreover, whom he predestined, those he also called; and whom he called✭, those he also justified; and whom he justified✭, those he also glorified✭.
31 📚✭What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 📚✭He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 📚✭Who shall bring any charge against God’s chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 📚✭Who is he who condemns? Christ is the one who died, and beyond that, who was raised again and who is at the right hand of God, who also is interceding for us. 35 📚✭Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 📚As it is written,
“For your sake we are being
killed all day long;
we are considered as sheep
for the slaughter”.
37 📚✭No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 📚✭For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 📚nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.