Romans 8 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

Escape from Bondage

1Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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

3For what the Law could not do being weakened by the flesh, God did: He sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful man as an offering for sin. And He condemned sin in the flesh,

4so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not live our lives in the ways of the flesh, but in the ways of the Spirit.

5For those who are living according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are living according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

6Now the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

7the mind of the flesh is actively hostile to God. It does not submit itself to God’s law, since it cannot,

8and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

9However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.

10If Christ lives in you, though your body is dead because of sin, your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives 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.

12So then, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but not to our flesh, to live according to the flesh—

13for if you are living according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you are habitually putting to death the sinful deeds of the body, you will live forever.

14For all who are allowing themselves to be led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

15For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry, “Abba! Father!”

16The Spirit Himself testifies and confirms together with our spirit that we are children of God.

17And if children, heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His suffering so that we may also share in His glory.

18For I consider that the sufferings of the present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us!

19For creation waits eagerly for the children of God to be revealed.

20For the creation was subjected to frustration and futility, not willingly, but by the will of Him who subjected it, in hope

21that the creation itself will also be freed from its bondage to decay into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

22For we know that the whole creation has been moaning together as in the pains of childbirth until now.

23And not only this, but we too, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we groan inwardly, as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons—the redemption and transformation of our body.

24For in this hope we were saved. But hope which is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he already sees?

25But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait eagerly for it with patience and composure.

Our Victory in Christ

26In the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what prayer to offer or how to offer it as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes on our behalf with sighs and groanings too deep for words.

27And He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of God’s people in accordance with God’s will.

28And we know that God causes all things to work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose.

29For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many believers.

30And those whom He predestined, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified; and those whom He justified, He also glorified.

31What then shall we say to all these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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

33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect (His chosen ones)? It is God who justifies us.

34Who is the one who condemns us? Christ Jesus is the One who died, and more than that, who was raised, and who is at the right hand of God interceding for us.

35Who shall ever separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

36Just as it is written and forever remains written,

“For Your sake we are put to death all day long;

We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.”

37Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us.

38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present and threatening, nor things to come, nor powers,

39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.