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Romans 8:11There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:18-192 Cor 5:17Gal 3:13Rom 5:11 Cor 1:30Titus 2:11-14Rom 4:7-8John 5:24Rom 8:34John 15:4
Romans 8:22For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 6:142 Cor 3:17Rom 6:182 Cor 3:6Rom 8:10-111 Cor 15:45John 8:32John 8:36Rom 6:22Rom 7:4
Romans 8:33For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:39Gal 4:4-5Heb 7:18-192 Cor 5:21Gal 3:13Heb 10:141 Pet 2:24Rom 6:61 Pet 4:1-2Heb 10:1-10
Romans 8:44so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 5:16Gal 5:22-25Col 1:22Eph 5:26-27Heb 12:23Jude 1:24Rev 14:51 John 3:2Rom 2:26
Romans 8:55For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 2:14Gal 5:19-25John 3:6Col 3:1-3Rom 8:6-7Phil 3:18-19Rom 8:9Mark 8:33Rom 8:12-142 Cor 10:3
Romans 8:66For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 6:8Rom 8:7Rom 8:13Rom 13:14Rom 6:23Jas 1:14-15Gal 5:22John 14:27Rom 6:21John 14:6
Romans 8:77because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 2:141 John 2:15-16Jas 4:4Eph 4:18-192 Tim 3:4Heb 8:10Rom 7:22Col 1:21Rom 8:4Rom 5:10
Romans 8:88Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:5-6Heb 11:5-6Rom 7:5Rom 8:9Col 1:10John 3:3Heb 13:211 John 3:22John 8:291 Cor 7:32
Romans 8:99You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 4:61 Cor 3:162 Tim 1:141 Cor 6:19John 14:17Eph 1:13Gal 5:24Rom 8:11John 3:6Rom 8:2
Romans 8:1010But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 2:20Eph 3:172 Cor 5:212 Cor 5:1-4John 11:25-26John 17:23Rom 8:11Col 1:27Phil 1:23Col 3:3-4
Romans 8:1111Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:14Rom 6:4-52 Cor 4:11Eph 1:19-20Rom 8:91 Cor 6:14Rom 8:2Acts 2:24John 5:21Phil 3:21
Romans 8:1212So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the fleshCopy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 6:2-151 Cor 6:19-201 Pet 4:2-3Ps 116:16
Romans 8:1313(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 6:81 Pet 2:11Col 3:5-81 Cor 9:27Titus 2:12Gal 5:24Eph 4:221 Pet 1:22Rom 8:4-6Rom 7:5
Romans 8:1414For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 5:18John 1:12Gal 3:26Gal 5:16Ps 143:10Gal 5:22-25Rev 21:7Rom 8:16-171 John 3:12 Cor 6:18
Romans 8:1515For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 4:5-72 Tim 1:71 Cor 2:12Rom 8:16Eph 1:5Heb 2:15Mark 14:361 John 4:18Jer 3:19Isa 56:5
Romans 8:1616The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 4:132 Cor 1:222 Cor 5:5Eph 1:13Rom 8:261 John 3:19-22Eph 4:302 Cor 1:12Rom 8:231 John 5:10
Romans 8:1717And if children, then heirs (namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ) —if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gal 4:7Gal 3:29Eph 3:61 Pet 4:13Rev 21:71 Pet 1:42 Tim 2:10-14Phil 1:29John 17:24Titus 3:7
Romans 8:1818For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 4:17-181 Pet 4:131 Pet 1:5-7Matt 5:11-12Acts 20:24Col 3:41 John 3:21 Pet 1:132 Thess 1:7-12Heb 11:25-26
Romans 8:1919For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mal 3:17-18Rom 8:231 John 3:22 Pet 3:11-13Phil 1:20Isa 65:17Rev 21:1-5Acts 3:21Matt 25:31-46
Romans 8:2020For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly but because of God who subjected it—in hopeCopy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 3:17-19Gen 5:29Rom 8:22Jer 12:4Isa 24:5-6Hos 4:3Jer 14:5-6Eccl 1:2Gen 6:13Job 12:6-10
Romans 8:2121that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 22:3-5Acts 3:212 Pet 3:13Rev 21:1Rom 8:19
Romans 8:2222For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 12:4Jer 12:11John 16:21Col 1:23Rom 8:20Mark 16:15Ps 48:6Rev 12:2
Romans 8:2323Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 3:20-212 Cor 5:2-5Heb 9:28Titus 2:13Eph 1:14Eph 4:30Gal 5:5Rom 7:241 John 3:2Luke 20:36
Romans 8:2424For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Cor 5:7Heb 11:12 Cor 4:181 Pet 1:211 Thess 5:8Rom 12:121 Pet 1:3Rom 15:13Rom 5:2Heb 6:18-19
Romans 8:2525But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 12:12Heb 10:36Ps 27:14Lam 3:25-261 Thess 1:3Heb 12:1-3Jas 5:7-11Col 1:11Luke 21:19Ps 130:5-7
Romans 8:2626In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 10:20Eph 6:18Gal 4:6John 14:16Jude 1:20-21Eph 2:18Rom 8:15Ps 6:9Heb 4:15Jas 4:3
Romans 8:2727And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 17:101 John 5:14-15Eph 2:18Acts 1:24Rom 8:341 Chr 28:91 John 3:21-22Ps 44:211 Thess 2:4Acts 15:8
Romans 8:2828And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:10Jas 1:12Gen 50:20Rom 5:3-51 Cor 2:9Rom 8:35-39Jas 1:3-4Rom 8:302 Tim 1:91 Pet 1:7-8
Romans 8:2929because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 1:4-5Jer 1:5Eph 1:112 Tim 1:91 Pet 1:20Rev 13:82 Tim 2:191 Cor 2:71 Pet 1:21 Cor 15:49
Romans 8:3030And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 17:14Rom 8:28Eph 1:11Rom 9:23-24Eph 1:5Heb 9:151 Pet 2:91 Cor 6:111 Pet 3:9John 17:22
Romans 8:3131What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 118:6Jer 1:19Ps 56:111 John 4:4Isa 54:17Jer 20:11Ps 56:4Ps 27:1-3Ps 84:11-12Num 14:9
Romans 8:3232Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:16Rom 8:28Ps 84:111 John 4:102 Cor 5:211 Cor 2:12Rom 5:6-101 Cor 3:21-23Rom 4:25Rom 6:23
Romans 8:3333Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 50:8-9Rev 12:10-11Isa 54:17Rom 8:1Luke 18:71 Thess 1:4Zech 3:1-4Rom 3:261 Pet 1:2Isa 42:1
Romans 8:3434Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 7:25Rom 8:27Heb 9:241 Pet 3:22Rom 8:1Col 3:1Heb 10:19-22Mark 16:19Heb 8:1-21 John 2:1-2
Romans 8:3535Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 10:28Ps 103:17John 16:33Rom 5:3-52 Cor 4:171 Pet 4:12-14Rom 8:392 Tim 4:16-18Matt 10:28-312 Tim 1:12
Romans 8:3636As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 44:22Isa 53:71 Cor 15:301 Cor 4:92 Cor 4:10-11Acts 8:32Acts 20:24Jer 11:19Jer 12:3Jer 51:40
Romans 8:3737No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:571 John 4:42 Cor 2:141 John 5:4-5Rev 21:7Rev 12:11Jude 1:242 Cor 12:9Gal 2:20John 16:33
Romans 8:3838For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 10:28Rom 14:82 Tim 1:121 Pet 5:8-101 Pet 3:22Col 1:161 Cor 3:22-23Col 2:15Eph 1:21Eph 6:11-12
Romans 8:3939nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 10:28-30Rom 8:35Rom 5:81 John 4:19Eph 3:18-191 John 4:9-10John 3:16Eph 1:4John 16:27John 17:26
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