8 ¹ The conclusion of the matter is this: there is no condemnation for those who are united with Christ Jesus, 8 ² because in Christ Jesus the life-giving law of the Spirit has set you free from the law of sin and death. 8 ³ What the law could never do, because our lower nature robbed it of all potency, God has done: by sending his own Son in a form like that of our own sinful nature, and as a sacrifice for sin, Or: and to deal with sin. he has passed judgement against sin within that very nature, 8 ⁴ so that the commandment of the law may find fulfilment in us, whose conduct, no longer under the control of our lower nature, is directed by the Spirit.
8 ⁵ Those who live on the level of our lower nature have their outlook formed by it, and that spells death; 8 ⁶ but those who live on the level of the spirit have the spiritual outlook, and that is life and peace. 8 ⁷ For the outlook of the lower nature is enmity with God; it is not subject to the law of God; indeed it cannot be: 8 ⁸ those who live on such a level cannot possibly please God.

8 ⁹ But that is not how you live. You are on the spiritual level, if only God's Spirit dwells within you; and if a man does not possess the Spirit of Christ, he is no Christian. 8 ¹⁰ But if Christ is dwelling within you, then although the body is a dead thing because you sinned, yet the spirit is life itself because you have been justified. Or: so that you may live rightly. 8 ¹¹ Moreover, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, then the God who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give new life to your mortal bodies through his indwelling Spirit.

8 ¹² It follows, my friends, that our lower nature has no claim upon us; we are not obliged to live on that level. 8 ¹³ If you do so, you must die. But if by the Spirit you put to death all the base pursuits of the body, then you will live.
8 ¹⁴ For all who are moved by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 8 ¹⁵ The Spirit you have received is not a spirit of slavery leading you back into a life of fear, but a Spirit that makes us sons, enabling us to cry 'Abba! Father!' 8 ¹⁶ In that cry the Spirit of God joins with our spirit in testifying that we are God's children; and if children, then heirs. 8 ¹⁷ We are God's heirs and Christ's fellow-heirs, if we share his sufferings now in order to share his splendour hereafter.