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

2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law

of sin and of death. 3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through

the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as

an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the requirement of

the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but

according to the Spirit. 5 For those who are according to the flesh set their

minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the

things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set

on the Spirit is life and peace, 7 because the mind set on the flesh is hostile

toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even

able to do so, 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

9 However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God

dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not

belong to Him. 10 If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin,

yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who

raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from

the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells

in you.

12 So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live

according to the flesh— 13 for if you are living according to the flesh, you

must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body,

you will live. 14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons

of God. 15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again,

but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba!

Father!" 16 The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of

God, 17 and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if

indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

Romans 8:1-17 NASB