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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Romans 8 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/8.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/8-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > Romans 8</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/7.htm" title="Romans 7">◄</a> Romans 8 <a href="../romans/9.htm" title="Romans 9">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/romans/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Life Through the Spirit</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek is singular; some manuscripts me">a</a></sup></span> free from the law of sin and death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="In contexts like this, the Greek word for flesh (sarx) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13.">b</a></sup></span> God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or flesh, for sin">c</a></sup></span> And so he condemned sin in the flesh, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive">d</a></sup></span> because of righteousness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts bodies through">e</a></sup></span> his Spirit who lives in you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture; also in verse 23.">f</a></sup></span> And by him we cry, <span class="foreign">“Abba,</span> <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Aramaic for father">g</a></sup></span> Father.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Present Suffering and Future Glory</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>that <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or subjected it in hope. 21 For">h</a></sup></span> the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or that all things work together for good to those who love God, who; or that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good--with those who">i</a></sup></span> have been called according to his purpose. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.</p> <p class="sectionhead">More Than Conquerors</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>As it is written:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“For your sake we face death all day long;</p><p class="line2">we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Psalm 44:22">j</a></sup></span> </p></div> <p class="pcontinued"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or nor heavenly rulers">k</a></sup></span> neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek is singular; some manuscripts <i>me</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">In contexts like this, the Greek word for <i>flesh</i> (<i>sarx</i>) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 4-13.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>flesh, for sin</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts <i>bodies through</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek word for <i>adoption to sonship</i> is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture; also in verse 23.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Aramaic for <i>father</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>subjected it in hope. <span class="fnref">21</span>For</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">i</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>that all things work together for good to those who love God, who</i>; or <i>that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good—with those who</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">j</span> <span class="fnverse">36</span> <span class="footnotebot">Psalm 44:22</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">k</span> <span class="fnverse">38</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>nor heavenly rulers</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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