5. Those who live by the corrupt nature have the corrupt nature’s attitude. But those who live by the spiritual nature have the spiritual nature’s attitude.
6. The corrupt nature’s attitude leads to death. But the spiritual nature’s attitude leads to life and peace.
7. This is so because the corrupt nature has a hostile attitude toward God. It refuses to place itself under the authority of God’s standards because it can’t.
8. Those who are under the control of the corrupt nature can’t please God.
9. But if God’s Spirit lives in you, you are under the control of your spiritual nature, not your corrupt nature.Whoever doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ doesn’t belong to him.
10. However, if Christ lives in you, your bodies are dead because of sin, but your spirits are alive because you have God’s approval.
11. Does the Spirit of the one who brought Jesus back to life live in you? Then the one who brought Christ back to life will also make your mortal bodies alive by his Spirit who lives in you.
12. So, brothers and sisters, we have no obligation to live the way our corrupt nature wants us to live.
13. If you live by your corrupt nature, you are going to die. But if you use your spiritual nature to put to death the evil activities of the body, you will live.
14. Certainly, all who are guided by God’s Spirit are God’s children.
15. You haven’t received the spirit of slaves that leads you into fear again. Instead, you have received the spirit of God’s adopted children by which we call out, “Abba! Father!”
16. The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
17. If we are his children, we are also God’s heirs. If we share in Christ’s suffering in order to share his glory, we are heirs together with him.
18. I consider our present sufferings insignificant compared to the glory that will soon be revealed to us.
19. All creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal who his children are.
20. Creation was subjected to frustration but not by its own choice. The one who subjected it to frustration did so in the hope
21. that it would also be set free from slavery to decay in order to share the glorious freedom that the children of God will have.