9. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if any man does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
10. And if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you.
12. Therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
13. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if through the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God.
15. For you have not received the spirit of slavery again to fear. But you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba, Father.”
16. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirits that we are the children of God,
17. and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified with Him.
18. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us.
19. The eager expectation of the creation waits for the appearance of the sons of God.
20. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but by the will of Him who subjected it, in hope
21. that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22. We know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
23. Not only that, but we also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan within ourselves while eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.