Life in the Spirit: An Exploration of Romans 8

A study of Romans 8, focusing on the transformative power of the Spirit and the believer's relationship with God.

Verses: Romans 8:1-4

No condemnation for those in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and death.
God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to condemn sin in the flesh.

Verses: Romans 8:5-8

Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.
Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

Verses: Romans 8:9-11

If the Spirit of God dwells in you, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit.
If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Verses: Romans 8:12-14

We are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
If you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
Those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.

Verses: Romans 8:15-17

You did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.
By him we cry, 'Abba, Father.'
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. If we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

Verses: Romans 8:18-25

Present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
The creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Verses: Romans 8:26-27

The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

Verses: Romans 8:28-30

We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
Those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

Verses: Romans 8:31-34

If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one.

Verses: Romans 8:35-39

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.