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.