Romans 8:10-17

Expanded Bible

¹⁰ Your body ·will always be [^Lis] dead because of sin. But if Christ is in you, then the Spirit ·gives you [^Lis] life, because ·Christ made you right with God [^Lof righteousness]. ¹¹ God raised Jesus from the dead, and if God’s Spirit is living in you, the One who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies that die, through^[a] his Spirit who lives in you.

¹² So, my brothers and sisters, we ·must not be ruled by [^Lare not obligated to] ·our sinful selves [our sinful nature; ^Tthe flesh] or live ·the way our sinful selves want [according to the sinful nature/^Tflesh]. ¹³ [^LFor] If you ·use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want [^Llive according to the flesh], you will ·die spiritually [^Ldie]. But if you ·use the Spirit’s help to [^Lby the Spirit] ·stop doing the wrong things you do with [^Lput to death the deeds of] your body, you will ·have true life [^Llive].

¹⁴ For all those who are led by the Spirit of God are the ·children [or sons] of God. ¹⁵ ·The Spirit you received does not make you slaves again to fear [or You did not receive the spirit of slavery, leading to fear]; instead, you received the Spirit ·who adopts you as God’s children [^Lof adoption]. ·With [Through] that Spirit we cry out, “Abba [^CAramaic for “Father”; Mark 14:36], Father.” ¹⁶ And the Spirit himself ·joins with [or testifies to] our spirits to say we are God’s children. ¹⁷ If we are God’s children, we ·will receive blessings from God together with Christ [^Lare heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ]. ·But we must [^L…if indeed we] ·suffer as Christ suffered [share in his sufferings] so that we ·will have glory as Christ has glory [may share in his glory].