Romans 8:1-16
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There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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For the law of h the Spirit of life i has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
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For j God has done what the law, k weakened by the flesh, l could not do. m By sending his own Son n in the likeness of sinful flesh and o for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
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in order that p the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, q who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
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For r those who live according to the flesh set their minds on s the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on t the things of the Spirit.
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For to set u the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
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For the mind that is set on the flesh is v hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; w indeed, it cannot.
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Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
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You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact x the Spirit of God dwells in you. y Anyone who does not have z the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
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But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
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If the Spirit of a 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 b through his Spirit who dwells in you.
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So then, brothers, we are debtors, c not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
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For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you d put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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For all who are e led by the Spirit of God are f sons of God.
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For g you did not receive h the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of i adoption as sons, by whom we cry, j "Abba! Father!"
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k The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 15:45
Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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Romans 8:12
So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
Romans 6:14
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:18
And, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Romans 7:4
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
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Cross References
Hebrews 10:1 - 2
For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
Hebrews 10:10
And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Hebrews 10:14
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
Acts 13:39
And by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
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Galatians 4:9
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
Hebrews 7:18
For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness
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Hebrews 10:6
In burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
Hebrews 10:8
When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law).
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2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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Philippians 2:7
But made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
John 1:14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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Cross References
Leviticus 16:5
And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
Hebrews 10:6
In burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
Hebrews 10:8
When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the law).
Hebrews 13:11
For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.
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Cross References
Romans 1:32
Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Romans 2:26
So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
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Cross References
Galatians 5:16
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
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Galatians 6:8
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
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Galatians 5:19 - 21
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality.
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Galatians 5:22 - 23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.
Galatians 5:25
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
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Cross References
Romans 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Colossians 2:18
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind.
Romans 6:21
But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
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James 4:4
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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1 Corinthians 2:14
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
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Romans 8:11
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.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.
2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2 Timothy 1:14
By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.
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Cross References
Jude 1:19
It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
John 14:17
Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
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Cross References
Acts 16:7
And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.
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Acts 2:24
God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
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Cross References
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
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Cross References
Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
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Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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Galatians 5:18
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
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Cross References
Romans 8:16
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Romans 8:19
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Romans 9:8
This means that it is not the children of the f...
Romans 9:26
"And in the very place where it was said to the...
Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shal...
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall ...
John 1:12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in...
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Cross References
1 Corinthians 2:12
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
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2 Timothy 1:7
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Galatians 2:4
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in - who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery -
Hebrews 2:15
And deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
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Romans 8:23
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Galatians 4:5
To redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Romans 9:4
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
Isaiah 56:5
I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
Jeremiah 31:9
With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
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Cross References
Galatians 4:6
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!
Mark 14:36
And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.
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2 Corinthians 1:22
And who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
2 Corinthians 5:5
He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
Ephesians 1:13 - 14
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.
1 John 3:24
Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
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