Romans 7:21-8:17

English Standard Version

²¹ So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. ²² For ^(A)I delight in the law of God, ^(B)in my inner being, ²³ but I see in my members ^(C)another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. ²⁴ Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from ^(D)this body of death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Life in the Spirit

8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.^{[a] 2} For the law of ^(E)the Spirit of life ^(F)has set you^[b] free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. ³ For ^(G)God has done what the law, ^(H)weakened by the flesh, ^(I)could not do. ^(J)By sending his own Son ^(K)in the likeness of sinful flesh and ^(L)for sin,^[c] he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ in order that ^(M)the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, ^(N)who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For ^(O)those who live according to the flesh set their minds on ^(P)the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on ^(Q)the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For to set ^(R)the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ For the mind that is set on the flesh is ^(S)hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; ^(T)indeed, it cannot. ⁸ Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

⁹ You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact ^(U)the Spirit of God dwells in you. ^(V)Anyone who does not have ^(W)the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ If the Spirit of ^(X)him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus^[d] from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies ^(Y)through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Heirs with Christ

¹² So then, brothers,^[e] we are debtors, ^(Z)not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you ^(AA)put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴ For all who are ^(AB)led by the Spirit of God are ^(AC)sons^[f] of God. ¹⁵ For ^(AD)you did not receive ^(AE)the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of ^(AF)adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ^(AG)“Abba! Father!” ^16 (AH)The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, ¹⁷ and if children, then ^(AI)heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, ^(AJ)provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.