Romans 8

1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.Cross-references: Isa 54:17 · John 3:18 · John 5:24 · John 14:20 · John 15:4 · Rom 4:7 · +19 more

2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.Cross-references: Ps 51:12 · John 4:10 · John 4:14 · John 6:63 · John 7:38 · John 8:32 · +17 more

3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,Cross-references: Mark 15:27 · John 1:14 · John 3:14 · John 9:24 · Acts 13:39 · Rom 3:20 · +19 more

4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.Cross-references: Rom 2:26 · Gal 5:16 · Gal 5:22 · Eph 5:26 · Col 1:22 · Heb 12:23 · +3 more

5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.Cross-references: Mark 8:33 · John 3:6 · Rom 8:6 · Rom 8:9 · Rom 8:12 · 1Cor 2:14 · +7 more

6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;Cross-references: John 14:6 · John 14:27 · John 17:5 · Rom 5:1 · Rom 5:10 · Rom 6:21 · +10 more

7because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · 2Chr 19:2 · Ps 53:1 · Jer 13:23 · Matt 5:19 · Matt 12:34 · +19 more

8Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.Cross-references: Matt 3:17 · John 3:3 · John 3:5 · John 8:29 · Rom 7:5 · Rom 8:9 · +9 more

9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.Cross-references: Ezek 11:19 · Ezek 36:26 · Luke 11:13 · John 3:6 · John 3:34 · John 14:17 · +23 more

10If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.Cross-references: John 4:14 · John 6:54 · John 6:56 · John 11:25 · John 14:19 · John 14:23 · +23 more

11But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.Cross-references: Isa 26:19 · Ezek 37:14 · John 5:21 · John 5:28 · John 7:38 · John 14:17 · +24 more

12So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.Cross-references: Ps 116:16 · Rom 6:2 · 1Cor 6:19 · 1Pet 4:2

13For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.Cross-references: Rom 6:21 · Rom 6:23 · Rom 7:5 · Rom 8:1 · Rom 8:4 · 1Cor 9:27 · +12 more

14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.Cross-references: Ps 143:10 · Prov 8:20 · Isa 48:16 · Hos 1:10 · John 1:12 · Rom 8:5 · +15 more

15For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”Cross-references: Ex 20:19 · Num 17:12 · Isa 56:5 · Jer 3:19 · Mark 14:36 · Luke 8:28 · +18 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

16The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;Cross-references: Rom 8:23 · Rom 8:26 · 2Cor 1:12 · 2Cor 1:22 · 2Cor 5:5 · Eph 1:13 · +4 more

17and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.Cross-references: Matt 16:24 · Matt 25:21 · Luke 12:32 · Luke 22:29 · Luke 24:26 · John 12:25 · +25 more

18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.Cross-references: Matt 5:11 · Acts 20:24 · 2Cor 4:17 · Col 3:4 · 2Thess 1:7 · 2Thess 2:14 · +7 more

19For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.Cross-references: Isa 65:17 · Mal 3:17 · Matt 25:31 · Acts 3:21 · Rom 8:23 · Phil 1:20 · +3 more

20For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hopeCross-references: Gen 3:17 · Gen 5:29 · Gen 6:13 · Job 12:6 · Eccl 1:2 · Isa 24:5 · +6 more

21that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.Cross-references: Acts 3:21 · Rom 8:19 · 2Pet 3:13 · Rev 21:1 · Rev 22:3

22For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.Cross-references: Ps 48:6 · Jer 12:4 · Jer 12:11 · Mark 16:15 · John 16:21 · Rom 8:20 · +2 more

23Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.Cross-references: Luke 20:36 · Luke 21:28 · Rom 5:5 · Rom 7:24 · Rom 8:15 · Rom 8:19 · +15 more

24For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?Cross-references: Ps 33:18 · Ps 33:22 · Ps 146:5 · Prov 14:32 · Jer 17:7 · Zech 9:12 · +20 more

25But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.Cross-references: Gen 49:18 · Ps 27:14 · Ps 37:7 · Ps 62:1 · Ps 62:5 · Ps 130:5 · +20 more

26In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.Cross-references: Ps 6:3 · Ps 6:9 · Ps 10:17 · Ps 42:1 · Ps 55:1 · Ps 69:3 · +25 more

27He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.Cross-references: 1Chr 28:9 · 1Chr 29:17 · Ps 7:9 · Ps 38:9 · Ps 44:21 · Ps 66:18 · +21 more

28We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.Cross-references: Gen 50:20 · Ex 20:6 · Deut 6:5 · Deut 8:2 · Deut 8:16 · Neh 1:5 · +37 more

29For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.Cross-references: Ex 33:12 · Ex 33:17 · Ps 1:6 · Ps 89:27 · Jer 1:5 · Matt 7:23 · +27 more

30Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.Cross-references: Isa 41:9 · John 5:24 · John 6:39 · John 17:22 · John 17:24 · Rom 1:6 · +29 more

31What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Num 14:9 · Deut 33:29 · Josh 10:42 · 1Sam 14:6 · 1Sam 17:45 · +15 more

32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?Cross-references: Gen 22:12 · Ps 84:11 · Isa 53:10 · Matt 3:17 · John 3:16 · Rom 4:25 · +11 more

33Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.Cross-references: Job 1:9 · Job 2:4 · Job 22:6 · Job 34:8 · Job 42:7 · Ps 35:11 · +13 more

34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.Cross-references: Job 33:24 · Job 34:29 · Ps 37:33 · Ps 109:31 · Isa 53:12 · Jer 50:20 · +28 more

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?Cross-references: Ps 103:17 · Jer 31:3 · Matt 5:10 · Matt 10:28 · Luke 21:12 · John 10:28 · +21 more

36Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”Cross-references: Ps 44:22 · Ps 141:7 · Isa 53:7 · Jer 11:19 · Jer 12:3 · Jer 51:40 · +6 more

37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.Cross-references: 2Chr 20:25 · Isa 25:8 · John 16:33 · 1Cor 15:54 · 1Cor 15:57 · 2Cor 2:14 · +18 more

38For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,Cross-references: John 10:28 · Rom 4:21 · Rom 14:8 · 1Cor 3:22 · 1Cor 15:54 · 2Cor 4:13 · +11 more

39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Cross-references: Ex 9:16 · Ps 64:6 · Ps 93:3 · Prov 20:5 · Isa 10:10 · Isa 10:33 · +30 more