Romans, 8

1. [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

1. This contradiction no longer exists for those who are in Jesus Christ.

2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

2. For, in Jesus Christ, the law of the Spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death.

3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

3. The Law was without effect because flesh was not responding. Then God, planning to destroy sin, sent his own Son, in the likeness of those subject to the sinful human condition; by doing this, he condemned the sin in this human condition.

4. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

4. Since then the perfection intended by the Law would be fulfilled in those not walking in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

5. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

5. Those walking according to the flesh tend towards what is flesh; those led by the spirit, to what is spirit.

6. For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace.

6. Flesh tends towards death, while spirit aims at life and peace.

7. Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

7. What the flesh seeks is against God: it does not agree, it cannot even submit to the law of God.

8. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

8. So, those walking according to the flesh cannot please God.

9. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

9. Yet your existence is not in the flesh, but in the spirit, because the Spirit of God is within you. If you did not have the Spirit of Christ, you would not belong to him.

10. And if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead because of sin; but the Spirit [is] life because of righteousness.

10. But Christ is within you; though the body is branded by death as a consequence of sin, the spirit is life and holiness.

11. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

11. And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is within you, He who raised Jesus Christ from among the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies. Yes, he will do it through his Spirit who dwells within you.

12. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

12. Then, brothers, let us leave the flesh and no longer live according to it.

13. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

13. If not, we will die. Rather, walking in the Spirit, let us put to death the body's deeds so that we may live.

14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

14. All those who walk in the Spirit of God are sons and daughters of God.

15. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

15. Then, no more fear: you did not receive a spirit of slavery, but the Spirit that makes you sons and daughters and every time we cry, "Abba! (this is Dad!) Father!"

16. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

16. the Spirit assures our spirit that we are sons and daughters of God.

17. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together.

17. If we are children, we are heirs, too. Ours will be the inheritance of God and we will share it with Christ; for if we now suffer with him, we will also share Glory with him.

18. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

18. I consider that the suffering of our present life cannot be compared with the Glory that will be revealed and given to us.

19. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

19. All creation is eagerly expecting the birth in glory of the children of God.

20. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope,

20. For if now the created world was unable to attain its purpose, this did not come from itself, but from the one who subjected it. But it is not without hope;

21. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

21. for even the created world will be freed from this fate of death and share the freedom and glory of the children of God.

22. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

22. We know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pangs of birth.

23. And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body.

23. Not creation alone, but even ourselves, although the Spirit was given to us as a foretaste of what we are to receive, we groan in our innermost being, eagerly awaiting the day when God will give us full rights and rescue our bodies as well.

24. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

24. To hope is the way we are saved. But if we saw what we hoped for, there would no longer be hope: how can you hope for what is already seen?

25. But if we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it].

25. So we hope for what we do not see and we will receive it through patient hope.

26. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

26. We are weak, but the Spirit comes to help us. How to ask? And what shall we ask for? We do not know, but the spirit intercedes for us without words, as if with groans.

27. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.

27. And He who sees inner secrets knows the desires of the Spirit, for he asks for the holy ones what is pleasing to God.

28. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.

28. We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him, whom he has called according to his plan.

29. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

29. Those whom he knew beforehand, he has also predestined to be like his Son, similar to him, so that he may be the Firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

30. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

30. And so, those whom God predestined he called, and those whom he called he makes righteous, and to those whom he makes righteous he will give his Glory.

31. What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?

31. What shall we say after this? If God is with us, who shall be against us?

32. He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

32. If he did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not give us all things with him?

33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth.

33. Who shall accuse those chosen by God: he takes away their guilt.

34. Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

34. Who will dare to condemn them? Christ who died, and better still, rose and is seated at the right hand of God, interceding for us?

35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Will it be trials, or anguish, persecution or hunger, lack of clothing, or dangers or sword?

36. As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

36. As the Scripture says: For your sake we are being killed all day long; they treat us like sheep to be slaughtered.

37. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

37. No, in all of this we are more than conquerors, thanks to him who has loved us.

38. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

38. I am certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor spiritual powers, neither the present nor the future, nor cosmic powers,

39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

39. were they from heaven or from the deep world below, nor any creature whatsoever will separate us from the love of God, which we have in Jesus Christ, our Lord.