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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/romans/8.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Life in the Spirit</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts add who walk not according to the flesh (but according to the Spirit)">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For the law of the Spirit of life has set you<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts me">b</a></sup></span> free in Christ Jesus 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 God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or and as a sin offering">c</a></sup></span> 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 fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For those who live 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts lack Jesus">d</a></sup></span> from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.</p> <p class="heading">Heirs with Christ</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So then, brothers,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or brothers and sisters; also verse 29">e</a></sup></span> we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. <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 deeds of the body, you will live. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="See discussion on sons in the Preface">f</a></sup></span> of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.</p> <p class="heading">Future Glory</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, 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. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? <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 see, we wait for it with patience.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or that">g</a></sup></span> the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts God works all things together for good, or God works in all things for the good">h</a></sup></span> for those who are called according to his purpose. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.</p> <p class="heading">God’s Everlasting Love</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or who is">i</a></sup></span> 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 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 shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or Is it Christ Jesus who died... for us?">j</a></sup></span> <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 tribulation, or distress, 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><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;</span><br /><span class="indent">we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><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 sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/8-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Some manuscripts add <i>who walk not according to the flesh (but according to the Spirit)</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> Some manuscripts <i>me</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">and</span> as a sin offering</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Some manuscripts lack <i class="catch-word">Jesus</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">brothers</span> and sisters</i>; also verse 29<br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> See discussion on "sons" in the <a href=../#sons">Preface</a><br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> Or <i>that</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">28</span> Some manuscripts <i><span class="catch-word">God</span> works all things together for good</i>, or <i>God works in all things for the good</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">i</span> <span class="fnverse">31</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">who</span> is</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">j</span> <span class="fnverse">34</span> Or <i>Is it Christ Jesus who died... for us?</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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