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Romans 8

1 The assurance of the faithful and of the fruits of the holie Ghost in them. 3 The weakness of the Law and who accomplished it, 4 And wherefore. 5 Of what sort the faithful ought to be. 6 The fruit of the Spirit in them. 17 Of hope. 18 Of patience under the cross. 28 Of the mutual love betwixt God and his children. 29 Of his foreknowledge.
1.Now then there is no acondemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, which walk not bafter the flesh, but after the Spirit.
2.For the cLaw of the Spirit of life which is in dChrist Jesus, hath freed me from the law of sin and of death.
3.For (that that was impossible to the Law, in as much as it was ^weak, because of the flesh) God sending his own Son, in the esimilitude of sinful flesh, and ^for sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
4.That the frighteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, which walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
5.For they that are after the flesh, savour the gthings of the flesh: but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
6.For the wisdom of the flesh is death: but the wisdom of the Spirit is life and peace.
7.Because the wisdom of the flesh is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can be.
8.So then they that are in the flesh, cannot please God.
9.Now ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, ^because the Spirit of God dwelleth in you: but if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, the same is not his.
10.And if Christ be in you, the ^body is dead, because of sin: but the hSpirit is life for righteousness sake.
11.But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies, because that his Spirit dwelleth in you.
12.Therefore brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live after the iflesh:
13.For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye mortify the deeds of the body by the Spirit, ye shall live.
14.For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15.For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage to fear again: but ye have received the Spirit of kadoption, whereby we cry, *Abba, Father.
16.The same Spirit lbeareth witness with our Spirit, that we are the children of God.
17.If we be children, we are also mheirs, even the heirs of God, and heirs annexed with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
18.For I count that the afflictions of this present time are not ^worthy of the glory, which shalbe showed unto us.
19.For the fervent desire of the creature waiteth when the sons of God shalbe revealed.
20.Because the ncreature is subject to ovanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him, which hath subdued it under hope,
21.Because the creature also shalbe delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.
22.For we know that every pcreature groaneth with us also, and travaileth in pain together unto this present.
23.And not only the creature, but we also which have the qfirst fruits of the Spirit, even we do sigh in ourselves, waiting for the adoption, even the *redemption of our rbody.
24.For we are saved by hope: but shope that is seen, is not hope: for how can a man hope for that which he seeth?
25.But if we hope for that we see not, we do with patience abide for it.
26.Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what to pray as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh request for us with sighs, which can not be expressed.
27.But he that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the meaning of the Spirit: for he tmaketh request for the Saints, according to the will of God.
28.Also we know that all things work together for the best unto them that love God, even to them that are the called of his purpose.
29.For those which he uknew before, he also predestinate to be made like to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30.Moreover whom he predestinate, them also he called, and whom he called, them also he justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31.What shall we then say to these things? If God be on our side, who can be against us?
32.Who spared not his own Son, but gave him for us all to death, how shall he not with him give us all things also?
33.Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s chosen? it is God that *xjustifieth,
34.Who shall condemn? It is Christ, which is dead, yea or rather, which is risen again, who is also at the right hand of God, and maketh request also for us.
35.Who shall separate us from the love of yChrist? shall tribulation or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36.As it is written, *For thy sake are we zkilled all day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
37.Nevertheless, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38.For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor aprincipalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39.Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shalbe able to separate us from the blove of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Notes

1-a.
Though sin is in us, yet it is not imputed unto us through Christ Jesus.
1-b.
He annexes the condition lest we should abuse the liberty.
2-c.
The power & authority of the Spirit, that is, the grace of regeneration.
2-d.
Whose sanctification is made ours.
3-^.
Or, of no strength
3-^-1.
Or, by sin
3-e.
Christ did take flesh, which of nature was subject to sin, which not- withstanding he sanctified even in the very instant of his conception, and so did appropriate it unto him, that he might destroy sin in it, 2 Cor. 5.21.
4-f.
That which the Law requireth.
5-g.
The word comprehendeth all that which is most excellent in man, as will, understanding, reason, wit, & c.
9-^.
Or, if so be
10-^.
Or, flesh
10-h.
The Spirit of regeneration which abolishs sin in our flesh, not all at once, but by degrees: wherefore we must in the mean time call to God through patience.
12-i.
But to live after the Spirit.
15-*.
Gal. 4.5
15-k.
So he names the holie Ghost of the effect, which he causes in us, when he proposes us salvation by the Law with an impossible condition, who also doth seal our salvation in our hearts by Christ’s free adoption, that we consider not God now as a rigorous Lord, but as a most merciful Father.
16-l.
So that we have two witnesses, God’s Spirit and ours, who is certified by the Spirit of God.
17-m.
Freely made partakers of the Father’s treasures.
18-^.
Or, of like value.
20-n.
The creatures shall not be restored before that God’s children be brought to their perfection: in the mean season they wait.
20-o.
That is, to destruction, because of man’s sin.
22-p.
He meaneth not the Angels neither devils nor men.
23-*.
Luk. 21.28
23-q.
And yet are far from the perfection.
23-r.
Which shalbe in the resurrection when we shalbe made conformable to our head Christ.
24-s.
By hope is meant the thing, which we hope for.
27-t.
In that he stirs their hearts to pray, and shows both whom to ask, and how.
29-u.
He shows by the order of our election that afflictions are means to make us like the Son of God.
33-*.
Isa. 50.8
33-x.
Who pronouns his just in his Son Christ.
35-y.
Wherewith he loved us, or God in Christ: whose love is grounded upon his determinate purpose, and Christ is the pledge thereof.
36-*.
Psal. 44.22
36-z.
Which is to signify the condition of Christ’s Church.
38-a.
Paul sets forth by these words the wonderful nature of the spirits, as well the good, Eph. 1.21, Col. 1.16 as the evil spirits, Ephes. 6.12, Col. 2.15
39-b.
That is, wherewith God loves us in his Son Christ Jesus.