7. For the concern of the flesh is hostility toward God; it does not submit to the law of God, nor can it;
8. and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9. But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
10. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11. If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his Spirit that dwells in you.
12. Consequently, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
13. 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.
14. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
15. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, through which we cry, “Abba, Father!”