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    Romans 8

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    The people God justified are also said to be glorified, while they still wait for the redemption of their bodies.

    Life under the Spiritvv. 1–17

    The chapter opens with condemnation dismissed, then sets two minds against one another: the flesh bends towards death and hostility to God, while the Spirit brings life and peace. The Spirit does not merely visit; He lives in people, gives life to mortal bodies, leads them as sons of God, and teaches them to cry, “Abba! Father!” Yet sonship comes with a curious companion: heirs and co-heirs are promised glory, provided they suffer with Christ.

    Groaning towards gloryvv. 18–30

    The whole creation is waiting, having been subjected to futility and now groaning like a vast and rather unwilling choir in childbirth. People with the firstfruits of the Spirit groan as well, waiting for adoption and the redemption of their bodies. Even prayer becomes mysterious: the Spirit intercedes with groans too deep for words. Then comes the remarkable sequence—foreknown, predestined, called, justified, glorified—though the redeemed bodies are still awaited. The sentence seems to hold the future in the past tense.

    Nothing separatesvv. 31–39

    The argument now turns into a barrage of questions. Who can bring a charge, condemn, or separate? Trouble, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, and sword are all invited into the witness box. The people facing death all day and treated like slaughterhouse sheep are immediately called more than conquerors. The final list grows still stranger and larger—angels, principalities, time, powers, height, depth, and anything else in creation—yet none can separate them from the love of God in Christ Jesus.

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    1. Rom 8:1Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

    2. Rom 8:2For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

    3. Rom 8:3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

    4. Rom 8:4so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

    5. Rom 8:5Those 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.

    6. Rom 8:6The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,

    7. Rom 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

    8. Rom 8:8Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.

    9. Rom 8:9You, however, are controlled not by the flesh, but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.

    10. Rom 8:10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

    11. Rom 8:11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

    12. Rom 8:12Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it.

    13. Rom 8:13For 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.

    14. Rom 8:14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

    15. Rom 8:15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

    16. Rom 8:16The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

    17. Rom 8:17And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

    18. Rom 8:18I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.

    19. Rom 8:19The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.

    20. Rom 8:20For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

    21. Rom 8:21that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

    22. Rom 8:22We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

    23. Rom 8:23Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

    24. Rom 8:24For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?

    25. Rom 8:25But if we hope for what we do not yet see, we wait for it patiently.

    26. Rom 8:26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words.

    27. Rom 8:27And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

    28. Rom 8:28And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.

    29. Rom 8:29For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

    30. Rom 8:30And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

    31. Rom 8:31What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

    32. Rom 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

    33. Rom 8:33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.

    34. Rom 8:34Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

    35. Rom 8:35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

    36. Rom 8:36As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

    37. Rom 8:37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

    38. Rom 8:38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

    39. Rom 8:39neither 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.

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    • 29Ephesians 1:4–5For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
    • 29Jeremiah 1:5“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
    • 29Ephesians 1:11In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,
    • 292 Timothy 1:9He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
    • 291 Peter 1:20He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
    • 281 Peter 5:10And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.
    • 28James 1:12Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
    • 29Revelation 13:8And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.
    • 28Genesis 50:20As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.
    • 291 Corinthians 15:49And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so also shall we bear the likeness of the heavenly man.
    • 28Romans 5:3–5Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
    • 31Psalms 118:6The LORD is on my side; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
    • 29Colossians 1:15–18The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
    • 29Romans 9:23What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—
    • 291 John 3:2Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is.
    • 281 Corinthians 2:9Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

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