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in order that the requirement of the law would be fulfilled in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

For those who are living according to the flesh are intent on the things of the flesh, but those who are living according to the Spirit are intent on the things of the Spirit.

For the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace,

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

But if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, "Abba! Father!"

For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected it, in hope

Not only this, but we ourselves also, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves while we await eagerly our adoption, the redemption of our body.

For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?

But if we hope for what we do not see, we await it eagerly with patient endurance.

And likewise also, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as one ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with unexpressed groanings.

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, together with him, freely give us all things?

No, but in all these things we prevail completely through the one who loved us.

But it is not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel,

nor are they all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but "In Isaac will your descendants be named."

That is, it is not the children by human descent who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.

And not only this, but also when Rebecca conceived children by one man, Isaac our father—

not by works but by the one who calls—it was said to her, "The older will serve the younger,"

just as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."