SCRIPTURE
Romans 8: 1-11
1 There is therefore now no condemnation
for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For 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 to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4
so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not
according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For 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. 6 To
set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life
and peace. 7 For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to
God; it does not submit to God's law--indeed it cannot, 8 and those who are in
the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh; you are in the
Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the
Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, though the
body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If
the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised
Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his
Spirit that dwells in you.