OET-RV ROM Chapter 8

8 So now those who are in Messiah Yeshua cannot be condemned 2 because the law of the spirit of life in him freed you from the law of sin and death. 3 The law was powerless in that it was faltering through our bodies. God sent his son in a body just like our sinful bodies, and concerning sin, he condemned sin itself in the flesh 4 so that for those of us who were no longer living according to the flesh but according to the spirit, then the just act of the law would be fulfilled in us. 5 People who live according to their physical desires, think about physical things, but those who live according to the spirit, think about spiritual things. 6 The worldly mindset leads to death, but the spiritual mindset leads to life and peace. 7 The worldly mindset is making God your enemy because it’s not being subjected to God’s law, in fact it’s not even able to, 8 and those who are worldly aren’t able to bring pleasure to God.

9 And all of you aren’t worldly, but in the spirit, if indeed God’s spirit is living in you, but anyone who doesn’t have the spirit of Messiah, doesn’t belong to him. 10 But if Messiah is in you, while your body is dead because of sin, your spirit has life because it’s been declared guiltless. 11 [ref]Yes, if the spirit of the one who brought Yeshua back to life is living in you, then the one who brought Messiah Yeshua back to life will also give life to your mortal bodies by means of his spirit living inside you all.

12 So then brothers and sisters, we don’t owe anything to our sinful natures, nor do we need worldly living. 13 If you all live according to the sinful nature, you’ll die, but if you put bodily practices to death with the help of the spirit, you’ll live, 14 because all those who’re led by God’s spirit become God’s children. 15 [ref]You didn’t receive a spirit of slavery to fear again, but rather it was the spirit of adoption as children that you all received, and with his help we call out, ‘Father, father.’ 16 God’s spirit himself agrees together with our spirit that we are God’s children, 17 and if we’re his children, then we’re also heirs so we’ll receive an inheritance from God. That makes us fellow-heirs along with Messiah—if we’re suffering with him then we’ll also be honoured along with him.

18 I’m sure that any sufferings we experience in the present age are nothing in comparison with the coming splendour that’s going to be revealed to us 19 because all of creation is eagerly expecting and waiting for God’s children to be revealed. 20 [ref]Yes, all of creation has been subjected to lack of purpose, not willingly but because it was decided by the one who subjected it, but it remains with the hope 21 that it too will be freed from the slavery of corruption and then released into the freedom of the splendour of God’s children, 22 because we’re aware that all of creation is groaning and suffering[fn] along with us right through to the present time. 23 [ref]And not only that, but we ourselves who have the initial tastes of the spirit life, we also are groaning and like children waiting for our bodies to be set free from slavery 24 because we were saved having hope, but if you can see it then it’s not hope, because you don’t need to hope for something that you can already see. 25 So we hope for what we can’t yet see and so we have to patiently keep waiting.

26 Similarly the spirit also helps us with our weaknesses, because we don’t even know what to pray for, but the spirit intercedes with groanings that we can’t put into words. 27 The one who searches our hearts knows the mindset of the spirit because the spirit intercedes for the believers as God desires.

28 We know that God makes all things work together for good for those who love him—those who are being called according to his purpose. 29 Because those he foreknew, he also predetermined to be similar to his son’s image, so that his son would become the eldest of many siblings. 30 The ones he’d predetermined he also called, and the ones he’d called, he also declared guiltless, and the ones declared guiltless, he also honoured in heaven.

31 So then, what can we say about all this? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 If he didn’t spare his own son but gave him to be executed for us, won’t the two of them also give us everything else? 33 Who will bring charges against those chosen by God? God is the one declaring us guiltless. 34 So who’s the one condemning us? Messiah Yeshua (the one who died but came back to life and who’s now sitting beside God) is also pleading for us. 35 Who will separate us from Messiah’s love? Tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or poverty or danger or execution? 36 [ref]As it’s been written:

‘We are being put to death all day

on your account.

We were counted like sheep ready to be slaughtered.’

37 But in all that, we are more than conquerors through the one who loved us. 38 Yes, I’ve been persuaded that neither death or life, angels or rulers, present or future events, powers, 39 height or depth, or anything else in creation, will be able to separate us from God’s love that’s revealed in our master Messiah Yeshua.