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

¹ Sentence of death therefore shall not pass upon those christians who do not lead a vicious life. ² for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death. ³ God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state. ⁴ so that the moral obligations of the law might be fulfilled by us, in living according to the spiritual, and not the carnal tenor thereof: ⁵ for they that are sensually affected, abandon themselves to sensuality, but the spiritual pursue their spiritual entertainments. ⁶ now sensual inclinations lead to death; but spiritual affections to a life of tranquillity. ⁷ because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be. ⁸ so that they who are in a carnal state, cannot be acceptable to the divine being. as for you, ⁹ you are not in such a state, but in a spiritual one, provided the divine spirit dwell in you. now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. ¹⁰ and if Christ be in you, tho' the body is mortal in consequence of sin; the spirit gives life by justification. ¹¹ for if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall likewise restore your mortal bodies to life, by his spirit that dwelleth in you.

¹² You are, therefore, brethren oblig'd to oppose your sensual passions; ¹³ for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy. ¹⁴ as many as are actuated by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. ¹⁵ for the spirit you have received is not servile to keep you still in fear; but it is the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, that is, father. ¹⁶ the same spirit testifies to our spirit, that we are the children of God. ¹⁷ and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; although we now suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.