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          DASV: Romans 8    

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to 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, in that it was weak through
the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh on account of sin; he condemned sin in the flesh,
4 so that the just 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 live according to the flesh fix their minds on
the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the
Spirit fix their minds on the things of the Spirit.
6 For to fix one's mind on the flesh is death; but to fix one's
mind on the Spirit is life and peace,
7 because the mind fixed on the flesh is enmity against God;
for it does not submit to the law of God, nor indeed is it
able to.
8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But 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.
10 If Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of
sin; the spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 If the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead lives
in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also
give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that lives
in you.
12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to
live according to the flesh.
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.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the
children of God.
15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery resulting again
in fear; but you received the spirit of adoption, by whom we
cry, "Abba, Father."
16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we
are children of God.
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs
with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, so that we may also
be glorified with him.

18 For I consider the sufferings of this present time are not
worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
19 For the creation eagerly awaits the revealing of the children
of God.
20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own
will, but by the will of him who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of the
children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groans with labor pains
until now.
23 Not only this, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits
of the Spirit, also groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting
our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
24 For in this hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is
not hope. For who hopes for what he already sees?
25 But if we hope for what we do not see, then we patiently
wait for it.
26 In the same way the Spirit also helps in our weakness, for
we do not know how to pray as we should; but the Spirit
himself intercedes for us with groanings which are ineffable.
27 The one who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the
Spirit is, because he intercedes for the saints according
to the will of God.

28 We know that all things work together for good to those who
love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
29 For those he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed
to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn
among many brothers.
30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called,
he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for
us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for
us all, how will he not also, along with him, freely give us
all things?
33 Who will bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who
justifies.
34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ Jesus who died, yes
and beyond that was raised from the dead, who is at the right
hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble,
or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
or danger, or sword?
36 Just as it is written,
      "For your sake we are killed all the day long;
           we are regarded as sheep for the slaughter."
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him who loved us.
38 For I am convinced, that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God in
Christ Jesus our Lord.

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