Romans 8 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
Time Period
~AD 57-58
Location
Written to the church in Rome; Paul likely writing from Corinth during his third missionary journey
Audience
Christians in Rome, including both Jewish and Gentile believers in a congregation Paul had not yet personally visited
Situation
Paul wrote this systematic theological letter to introduce himself and his gospel message before his planned visit to Rome. He was addressing a mixed community navigating tensions between Jewish and Gentile believers in the capital of the Roman Empire.
Key Background
Romans 8 follows Paul's discussion of sin, law, and justification (chapters 1-7), and represents the climax of his argument about life in the Spirit versus life in the flesh. The Roman Christians lived as a religious minority in the imperial capital, where emperor worship was prominent and periodic persecution occurred. Many Jewish Christians had only recently returned to Rome after Emperor Claudius expelled Jews from the city around AD 49.
So here's the bottom line: There is now no for those who are in The Jesus.
Because the of The of — working through The One, Jesus — has set you free from the of and death.
Because what the law couldn't do — since it was weakened by our — God did. He sent his own Son in the same kind of body that had twisted, and as a response to that he right there in flesh.
He did this so that the could be fully met in us — in those of us who don't to our human nature, but to The Breath.
Here's the difference: People who are their human nature have their on what human nature wants. But people who are The Breath have their on what The Breath wants.
Because having your mind set on human nature leads to but having your mind set on The Breath leads to life and
This is because the mindset focused on human nature is It doesn't submit to — it actually can't.
Those who are by can't please God.
But you are not controlled by human nature — you are in The if in fact The of God in you. And if anyone doesn't have The of The they don't belong to him.
But if The One is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of corruption, The Breath is life for you because you've been with
And if The Breath of the one who Jesus from lives in you, then the one who The One from will also give life to your through his Breath who lives in you.
So then, and we to our human nature — we have no obligation to live according to it.
Because if you live according to your human nature, you're heading toward But if by The Breath you to the of the you will truly live.
Because all who are by The Breath of God — these are
Because you didn't receive a of that drags you back into fear. No — you received The who makes you and by him we cry out, Father!"
The Breath himself it with our own spirit — we are God's children.
And if we're children, then we're — heirs of God, and with The But the deal is this: if we share in his suffering, we will also share in his
Here's what I'm of: whatever we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory that's going to be in us.
All of is on the of its with for God's children to be revealed.
Because creation was to — not by its own choice, but because of the who it — and it lives in
because creation itself will be from its to and brought into the of God's children.
We know that all of creation has been a in right up to the present moment.
And it's not just creation — we ourselves, who have the of The we groan inwardly too, as we eagerly wait for the full experience of being adopted: the of
Because we were in this But that you can already see isn't really — who hopes for something they already have?
But if we hope for what we don't yet see, we wait for it with
In the same way, The Breath in to us in our We don't even know what we should be praying for, but The Breath himself pleads on our behalf with that go than
And the one who knows exactly what The Breath intends, because The Breath pleads for those who are for perfectly in line with God's will.
And we know that God all for the good of those who love him — those who have been according to his purpose.
Because those God in he also in to be the of his Son, so that his Son would be the among many brothers and sisters.
And those he destined in advance, he also called. Those he called, he also And those he he also
So what do we say in response to all this? If God is for us, who can stand against us?
He even his own Son but up for all of us — so how would he not also, along with generously give us everything?
Who will the people God has God himself has declared them right!
Who is going to condemn? The One, Jesus, is the one who died — and more than that, was raised back to life — and is now at on
So who can us from The Can trouble? Hardship? Persecution? Hunger? Poverty? Danger? Violence?
As the say: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are treated like sheep lined up for slaughter."
No — in all these things we are more than through the one who loved us.
Because I am that neither death nor life, neither angels nor neither the present nor the future, nor any
neither nor nor in all will be able to separate us from the of that is in The Jesus our Lord.