2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and of
death:
3 For it being impossible for the law, because it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent
his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, even by a sin-offering condemned sin in the flesh;
4 That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after
the Spirit.
5 For they who are after the flesh, think of the things of the flesh; but they who are after the
Spirit, of the things of the Spirit.
6 Doubtless the thinking of the flesh is death; but the thinking of the Spirit is life and peace:
7 Because the thinking of the flesh is enmity against God; for to the law of God it is not subject,
nor can it be;
8 They therefore who are in the flesh, cannot please God.
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you; but if
any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
10 But if Christ is in you, the body indeed is dead with respect to sin, but the spirit is life with
regard to righteousness.
11 If then the Spirit of him, who raised Jesus from the dead, dwells in you, he who raised Christ
from the dead will quicken your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
12 So then, brethren, debtors we are, not to the flesh, that we may live after the flesh;
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the flesh,
ye shall live:
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.
15 Ye have not indeed received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the
spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, Abba, Father:
16 The very Spirit itself testifies together with our spirit, that we are the sons of God:
17 And if sons, then heirs; the heirs of God, and co-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with
him, that we may also be glorified together.
18 I indeed judge, that the afflictions of this time are not to be compared to the future glory
which shall be revealed to us.
19 For the intent expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons of God;
20 For to vanity has the creation been subjected, not willingly, but on account of him who has
subjected it in hope;
21 Because the creation itself shall also be reclaimed from the bondage of corruption into the
glorious liberty of the sons of God;
22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors in pain to this day:
23 And not only so, but we ourselves also, who have the beginnings of the Spirit, even we
ourselves do groan in ourselves, waiting for our adoption, the redemption of our body;
24 For by hope are we saved but hope that is seen is not hope; for what one sees, how can he
hope for it?
25 If then for what we see not we hope, we wait for it in patience.^487
(^487) To exhibit the meaning of this passage according to what is advanced in a note in pp. 306, 307, it shall be presented here
in lines, —
- Truly the intent expectation of the creature