Romans 8:1-17 - Set Free From The Law Of Sin And Death

¹ So there is no condemnation any more for those who are in union with Christ Jesus. ² For the life-giving law of the Spirit through Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death. ³ For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature, ⁴ so that the requirement of the Law might be fully met in our case, since we live not on the physical but on the spiritual plane. ⁵ People who are controlled by the physical think of what is physical, and people who are controlled by the spiritual think of what is spiritual. ⁶ For to be physically minded means death, but to be spiritually minded means life and peace. ⁷ For to be physically minded means hostility to God, for it refuses to obey God's law, indeed it cannot obey it. ⁸ Those who are physical cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness. ¹¹ If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.

¹² So, brothers, we are under obligations, but not to the physical nature, to live under its control, ¹³ for if you live under the control of the physical you will die, but if, by means of the Spirit, you put the body's doings to death, you will live. ¹⁴ For all who are guided by God's Spirit are God's sons. ¹⁵ It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself testifies with our spirits that we are God's children, ¹⁷ and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.