1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and death. 3 For though this was impossible under the law, because it was weakened by the flesh, God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and because of sin, in order to condemn sin in the flesh, 4 so that the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us. For we are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. 5 For those who are in agreement with the flesh are mindful of the things of the flesh. But those who are in agreement with the spirit are mindful of the things of the spirit. 6 For the prudence of the flesh is death. But the prudence of the spirit is life and peace. 7 And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be. 8 So those who are in the flesh are not able to please God. 9 And you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if it is true that the Spirit of God lives within you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is within you, then the body is indeed dead, concerning sin, but the spirit truly lives, because of justification. 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead lives within you, then he who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead shall also enliven your mortal bodies, by means of his Spirit living within you. 12 Therefore, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, so as to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if, by the Spirit, you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live. 14 For all those who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. 15 And you have not received, again, a spirit of servitude in fear, but you have received the Spirit of the adoption of sons, in whom we cry out: “Abba, Father!” 16 For the Spirit himself renders testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God. 17 But if we are sons, then we are also heirs: certainly heirs of God, but also co-heirs with Christ, yet in such a way that, if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him. 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with that future glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the anticipation of the creature anticipates the revelation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to emptiness, not willingly, but for the sake of the One who made it subject, unto hope. 21 For the creature itself shall also be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the sons of God. 22 For we know that every creature groans inwardly, as if giving birth, even until now; 23 and not only these, but also ourselves, since we hold the first-fruits of the Spirit. For we also groan within ourselves, anticipating our adoption as the sons of God, and the redemption of our body. 24 For we have been saved by hope. But a hope which is seen is not hope. For when a man sees something, why would he hope? 25 But since we hope for what we do not see, we wait with patience. 26 And similarly, the Spirit also helps our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself asks on our behalf with ineffable sighing. 27 And he who examines hearts knows what the Spirit seeks, because he asks on behalf of the saints in accordance with God. 28 And we know that, for those who love God, all things work together unto good, for those who, in accordance with his purpose, are called to be saints. 29 For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined, in conformity with the image of his Son, so that he might be the Firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom he predestined, he also called. And those whom he called, he also justified. And those whom he justified, he also glorified. 31 So, what should we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare even his own Son, but handed him over for the sake of us all, how could he not also, with him, have given us all things? 33 Who will make an accusation against the elect of God? God is the One who justifies; 34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus who has died, and who has indeed also risen again, is at the right hand of God, and even now he intercedes for us. 35 Then who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation? Or anguish? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or peril? Or persecution? Or the sword? 36 For it is as it has been written: “For your sake, we are being put to death all day long. We are being treated like sheep for the slaughter.” 37 But in all these things we overcome, because of him who has loved us. 38 For I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor the present things, nor the future things, nor strength, 39 nor the heights, nor the depths, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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- 1 John 3:18–19; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 3:13; Romans 5:1; 1 Corinthians 1:30
- 2 Romans 6:14; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Romans 6:18; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Romans 8:10–11
- 3 Acts 13:39; Galatians 4:4–5; Hebrews 7:18–19; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13
- 4 Galatians 5:16; Galatians 5:22–25; Colossians 1:22; Hebrews 12:23; Ephesians 5:26–27
- 5 1 Corinthians 2:14; Galatians 5:19–25; John 3:6; Colossians 3:1–3; Romans 8:6–7
- 6 Galatians 6:8; Romans 8:7; Romans 8:13; Romans 13:14; Romans 6:23
- 7 1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 John 2:15–16; James 4:4; Ephesians 4:18–19; Romans 7:22
- 8 John 3:5–6; Hebrews 11:5–6; Romans 8:9; Romans 7:5; Colossians 1:10
- 9 Galatians 4:6; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Timothy 1:14; 1 Corinthians 6:19; John 14:17
- 10 Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 3:17; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 8:11; 2 Corinthians 5:1–4
- 11 2 Corinthians 4:14; Romans 6:4–5; 2 Corinthians 4:11; Ephesians 1:19–20; Romans 8:9
- 12 Romans 6:2–15; 1 Corinthians 6:19–20; 1 Peter 4:2–3; Psalm 116:16
- 13 Galatians 6:8; 1 Peter 2:11; Colossians 3:5–8; 1 Corinthians 9:27; Titus 2:12
- 14 Galatians 5:18; John 1:12; Galatians 3:26; Galatians 5:16; Psalm 143:10
- 15 2 Timothy 1:7; Galatians 4:5–7; 1 Corinthians 2:12; Romans 8:16; Ephesians 1:5
- 16 1 John 4:13; 2 Corinthians 1:22; 2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 1:13; Romans 8:26
- 17 Galatians 4:7; Galatians 3:29; Ephesians 3:6; 1 Peter 4:13; Revelation 21:7
- 18 2 Corinthians 4:17–18; 1 Peter 4:13; 1 Peter 1:5–7; Matthew 5:11–12; Acts 20:24
- 19 Malachi 3:17–18; Romans 8:23; 1 John 3:2; 2 Peter 3:11–13; Philippians 1:20
- 20 Genesis 3:17–19; Genesis 5:29; Romans 8:22; Jeremiah 12:4; Isaiah 24:5–6
- 21 Revelation 22:3–5; Acts 3:21; Revelation 21:1; 2 Peter 3:13; Romans 8:19
- 22 Jeremiah 12:4; Jeremiah 12:11; John 16:21; Romans 8:20; Colossians 1:23
- 23 Philippians 3:20–21; Hebrews 9:28; 2 Corinthians 5:2–5; Titus 2:13; Ephesians 1:14
- 24 Hebrews 11:1; 2 Corinthians 5:7; 2 Corinthians 4:18; 1 Peter 1:21; 1 Thessalonians 5:8
- 25 Romans 12:12; Hebrews 10:36; Psalm 27:14; Lamentations 3:25–26; James 5:7–11
- 26 Matthew 10:20; Ephesians 6:18; Galatians 4:6; John 14:16; Jude 20–21
- 27 Jeremiah 17:10; 1 John 5:14–15; Ephesians 2:18; Romans 8:34; Acts 1:24
- 28 1 Peter 5:10; James 1:12; Genesis 50:20; Romans 5:3–5; 1 Corinthians 2:9
- 29 Ephesians 1:4–5; Jeremiah 1:5; Ephesians 1:11; 2 Timothy 1:9; 1 Peter 1:20
- 30 Revelation 17:14; Romans 8:28; Ephesians 1:11; Romans 9:23–24; Ephesians 1:5
- 31 Psalm 118:6; Jeremiah 1:19; Psalm 56:11; 1 John 4:4; Isaiah 54:17
- 32 John 3:16; Romans 8:28; Psalm 84:11; 1 John 4:10; 2 Corinthians 5:21
- 33 Revelation 12:10–11; Isaiah 50:8–9; Isaiah 54:17; Romans 8:1; Luke 18:7
- 34 Hebrews 7:25; Romans 8:27; Hebrews 9:24; 1 Peter 3:22; Romans 8:1
- 35 John 10:28; Psalm 103:17; John 16:33; Romans 5:3–5; 2 Corinthians 4:17
- 36 Psalm 44:22; Isaiah 53:7; 1 Corinthians 15:30; 2 Corinthians 4:10–11; 1 Corinthians 4:9
- 37 1 Corinthians 15:57; 1 John 4:4; 2 Corinthians 2:14; 1 John 5:4–5; Revelation 21:7
- 38 John 10:28; Romans 14:8; 2 Timothy 1:12; 1 Peter 5:8–10; 1 Peter 3:22
- 39 John 10:28–30; Romans 8:35; Romans 5:8; Ephesians 3:18–19; 1 John 4:19
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After showing how great the reward of a spiritual life is, and that it maketh Christ to dwell in us, and that it quickeneth our mortal bodies, and wingeth them to heaven, and rendereth the way of virtue easier, he next fitly introduces an exhortation to this purpose.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 (1889)
… by the prophet and by Paul, of whom the apostle, calling to mind the Scripture, says in the Epistle addressed to the Romans, "As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep for the slaughter." But here the expression "all the day long" is put for all this time during …
They would perchance have been troubled, and have vomited it forth, and Thou wouldest hear them when they cried unto Thee; for by a true death in the flesh He died for us, who now maketh intercession for us with Thee.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… when he saith, "There is therefore no condemnation now to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit: for the law of the Spirit of life hath made me free from the law of sin and death."
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Make ready then the vessel of thy soul, that thou mayest become a son of God, and an heir of God, and joint-heir with Christ; if, indeed, thou art preparing thyself that thou mayest receive; if thou art drawing nigh in faith that thou mayest be made faithful; if of set purpose thou art putting off the old man.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)