008:010 But if Christ is in you, though your body must die because of sin,
yet your spirit has Life because of righteousness.
008:011 And if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead
is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ from the dead
will give Life also to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit
who dwells in you.
008:012 Therefore, brethren, it is not to our lower natures that we
are under obligation that we should live by their rule.
008:013 For if you so live, death is near; but if, through being
under the sway of the spirit, you are putting your old bodily
habits to death, you will live.
008:014 For those who are led by God's Spirit are, all of them, God's sons.
008:015 You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness
of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror.
But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been
adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud,
"Abba! our Father!"
008:016 The Spirit Himself bears witness, along with our own spirits,
to the fact that we are children of God;
008:017 and if children, then heirs too--heirs of God and co-heirs
with Christ; if indeed we are sharers in Christ's sufferings,
in order that we may also be sharers in His glory.
008:018 Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison
with the glory which is soon to be manifested in us.
008:019 For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck,
is waiting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God.
008:020 For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality
(not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it).
008:021 Yet there was always the hope that at last the Creation itself
would also be set free from the thraldom of decay so as to enjoy