13. If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, then you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, then you will have true life.
14. The true children of God are those who let God’s Spirit lead them.
15. The Spirit that we received is not a spirit that makes us slaves again to fear. The Spirit that we have makes us children of God. And with that Spirit we say, “Father, dear Father.”
16. And the Spirit himself joins with our spirits to say that we are God’s children.
17. If we are God’s children, then we will receive the blessings God has for us. We will receive these things from God together with Christ. But we must suffer as Christ suffered, and then we will have glory as Christ has glory.
18. We have sufferings now. But the sufferings we have now are nothing compared to the great glory that will be given to us.
19. Everything that God made is waiting with excitement for the time when God will show the world who his children are. The whole world wants very much for that to happen.