1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.[1]2For the law of the Spirit of life has set you[2] free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. (羅6:14; 羅6:18; 羅7:4; 羅8:12; 林前15:45; 林后3:6)3For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin,[3] he condemned sin in the flesh, (利16:5; 约1:14; 徒13:39; 林后5:21; 加4:9; 腓2:7; 來7:18; 來10:1; 來10:6; 來10:8; 來10:10; 來10:14; 來13:11)4in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. (羅1:32; 羅2:26; 加5:16; 加5:25)5For 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. (加5:19; 加5:22; 加5:25; 加6:8)6For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. (羅6:21; 羅8:13; 西2:18)7For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. (林前2:14; 雅4:4)8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. (约14:17; 徒16:7; 羅8:11; 林前3:16; 林前6:19; 林后6:16; 提后1:14; 犹1:19)10But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.11If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus[4] from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. (徒2:24; 林后3:6)
Heirs with Christ
12So then, brothers,[5] we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. (羅8:2)13For 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. (西3:5)14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons[6] of God. (申14:1; 何1:10; 约1:12; 羅8:16; 羅8:19; 羅9:8; 羅9:26; 加5:18)15For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” (赛56:5; 耶31:9; 可14:36; 羅8:23; 羅9:4; 林前2:12; 加2:4; 加4:5; 加4:6; 提后1:7; 來2:15; 约一4:18)16The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, (林后1:22; 林后5:5; 弗1:13; 约一3:24)17and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. (徒14:22; 林后1:7; 加3:29; 加4:7; 提后2:12; 多3:7)
Future Glory
18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. (林后4:17; 彼前1:5)19For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. (羅2:7; 彼前4:13; 彼前5:1; 约一3:2)20For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope (创3:17; 创3:18; 传1:2)21that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. (徒3:21)22For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. (耶12:4; 耶12:11; 可16:15)23And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. (赛25:9; 路21:28; 羅7:24; 羅8:19; 羅8:25; 林后5:2; 林后5:4; 林后5:5; 加5:5; 雅1:18)24For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? (林后4:18; 帖前1:3; 帖前5:8; 來11:1)25But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. (帖前1:3; 帖前5:8)26Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. (亚12:10; 太20:22; 约14:16; 弗6:18; 雅4:3)27And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because[7] the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. (撒上16:7; 代上28:9; 箴15:11; 箴17:3; 耶11:20; 耶17:10; 路16:15; 羅8:6; 羅8:34; 帖前2:4; 约一5:14)28And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,[8] for those who are called according to his purpose. (拉8:22; 传8:12; 羅9:24; 林前1:9; 林前7:15; 林前7:17; 加1:15; 加5:8; 弗4:1; 弗4:4; 提后1:9)29For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. (羅9:23; 羅11:2; 林前2:7; 林前15:49; 弗1:5; 弗1:11; 腓3:21; 西1:15; 西1:18; 西3:10; 來1:6; 彼前1:2; 约一3:2; 启1:5)30And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. (约17:22; 林前6:11; 來2:10)
God’s Everlasting Love
31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be[9] against us? (民14:9; 王下6:16; 诗118:6; 约一4:4)32He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? (约3:16; 羅4:25)33Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. (赛50:8; 启12:10)34Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.[10] (可16:19; 羅8:1; 羅8:27; 來7:25; 约一2:1)35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?36As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” (诗44:22; 徒20:24; 林前4:9; 林前15:30; 林后4:10)37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. (约16:33; 林前15:57; 加2:20; 弗5:2; 启1:5; 启3:9)38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.