Study Desk

Life Through the Spirit

Therefore, there is now no condemnation^(a) for those who are in Christ Jesus,^(b)

because through Christ Jesus^(c) the law of the Spirit who gives life^(d) has set you^[a] free^(e) from the law of sin^(f) and death.

For what the law was powerless^(g) to do because it was weakened by the flesh,^[b](h) God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh⁽ⁱ⁾ to be a sin offering.^[c](j) And so he condemned sin in the flesh,

in order that the righteous requirement^(k) of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.^(l)

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires;^(m) but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.⁽ⁿ⁾

The mind governed by the flesh is death,^(o) but the mind governed by the Spirit is life^(p) and peace.

The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;^(q) it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.

Those who are in the realm of the flesh^(r) cannot please God.

You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh^(s) but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.^(t) And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,^(u) they do not belong to Christ.

But if Christ is in you,^(v) then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life^[d] because of righteousness.

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead^(w) is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies^(x) because of^[e] his Spirit who lives in you.