7. because 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.
8. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9. You, 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.
10. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.
11. Moreover 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.
12. So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not 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 all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.
15. For 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.”
16. The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.
17. And 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.
18. For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the glory that will be revealed to us.
19. For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.
20. For the creation was subjected to futility – not willingly but because of God who subjected it – in hope
21. that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.
22. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.