Romans 7:14-8:17

New American Standard Bible

The Conflict of Serving Two Masters

¹⁴For we know that the Law is ^(A)spiritual, but I am ^(B)fleshly, ^(C)sold ^[a]^(D)into bondage to sin. ¹⁵For ^(E)I do not understand what I am doing; for I am not practicing ^(F)what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate. ¹⁶However, if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with ^(G)the Law, that the Law is good. ¹⁷But now, ^(H)no longer am I the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me. ¹⁸For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my ^(I)flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. ¹⁹For ^(J)the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. ²⁰But if I do the very thing I do not want, ^(K)I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that dwells in me.

²¹I find then ^(L)the ^[b]principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. ²²For I joyfully agree with the law of God ^[c]in ^(M)the inner person, ²³but I see ^(N)a different law in ^[d]the parts of my body waging war against the ^(O)law of my mind, and making me a prisoner ^[e]of ^(P)the law of sin, the law which is in ^[f]my body’s parts. ²⁴Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from ^[g]^(Q)the body of this ^(R)death? ²⁵^(S)Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh ^(T)the law of sin.

Deliverance from Bondage

8 Therefore there is now no ^(U)condemnation at all for those who are ^(V)in ^(W)Christ Jesus. ²For ^(X)the law of the Spirit of life ^[h]in ^(Y)Christ Jesus ^(Z)has set you free from the law of sin and of death. ³For ^(AA)what the Law could not do, ^[i]^(AB)weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in ^(AC)the likeness of ^[j]sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴so that the ^(AD)requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who ^(AE)do not walk ^[k]according to the flesh but ^[l]according to the Spirit. ⁵For those who are in accord with the flesh set their minds on ^(AF)the things of the flesh, but those who are in accord with the Spirit, ^(AG)the things of the Spirit. ⁶^(AH)For the mind ^[m]set on the flesh is ^(AI)death, but the mind ^[n]set on the Spirit is life and peace, ⁷because the mind ^[o]set on the flesh is ^(AJ)hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, ⁸and those who are ^(AK)in the flesh cannot please God.

⁹However, you are not ^(AL)in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God ^(AM)dwells in you. But ^(AN)if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. ¹⁰^(AO)If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is ^[p]alive because of righteousness. ¹¹But if the Spirit of Him who ^(AP)raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, ^(AQ)He who raised ^(AR)Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies ^[q]through His Spirit who dwells in you.

¹²So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— ¹³for ^(AS)if you are living in accord with the flesh, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you are ^(AT)putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴For all who are ^(AU)being led by the Spirit of God, these are ^(AV)sons and daughters of God. ¹⁵For you ^(AW)have not received a spirit of slavery ^[r]leading to fear again, but you ^(AX)have received ^[s]a spirit of adoption as sons and daughters by which we cry out, “^(AY)Abba! ^[t]Father!” ¹⁶The Spirit Himself ^(AZ)testifies with our spirit that we are ^(BA)children of God, ¹⁷and if children, ^(BB)heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, ^(BC)if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.