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No Condemnation For Those In Christ Jesus

1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for the ones in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus set you free from the law of sin and death!

For God Did What The Law Could Not Do, For Those Walking In The Spirit

3 For the thing impossible for the Law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did. Having sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, the ones walking not in-accordance-with the flesh, but in accordance with the Spirit.

For The Way of The Flesh Is Death. But You Are Not In The Flesh, But In The Spirit

5 For the ones being in accordance with the flesh are thinking the things of the flesh, but the ones being in accordance with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the way-of-thinking of the flesh is death, but the way-of-thinking of the Spirit is life and peace. 7 Because the way-of-thinking of the flesh is hostility toward God; for it is not subject to the Law of God, for it is not even able. 8 And the ones being in the flesh are not able to please God. 9 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit— since the Spirit of God is dwelling in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this one is not of Him.

And The Spirit Is True Life In Us Now, And Will Give Life To Our Mortal Bodies

10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 And if the Spirit of the One having raised Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, the One having raised Christ from the dead will also give-life-to your mortal bodies through His Spirit dwelling in you.

So We Are Debtors To The Spirit To Put To Death The Deeds of The Flesh And Live

12 So then, brothers, we are debtors— not to the flesh, that we should be living in accordance with the flesh. 13 For if you are living in accordance with the flesh, you are going-to die. But if by the Spirit you are putting-to-death the practices of the body, you will live.

For Those Being So Led By The Spirit Are The Adopted Children of God

14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery again leading-to fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption by Whom we are crying-out “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit Himself bears-witness-with our spirit that we are children of God!

This Means We Are Joint-Heirs With Christ, Sharing His Suffering And Glory

17 And if we are children, we are heirs also. We are heirs of God, and fellow-heirs of Christ, since we are suffering-with Him in order that we may also be glorified-with Him. 18 For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to the glory destined to be revealed to us.

Creation Itself Groans To Share In Our Glory

19 For the eager-expectation of the creation is awaiting the revelation of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility— not willingly, but because of the One having subjected it— in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set-free from the slavery of decay into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation is groaning-together and suffering-birthpains-together until the present.

We Groan For The Redemption of Our Body

23 And not only creation, but also ourselves having the firstfruit of the Spirit— we ourselves also are groaning within ourselves while eagerly-awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body. 24 For we were saved in hope. But hope being seen is not hope, for who hopes-for what he sees? 25 But since we hope-for what we do not see, we are eagerly-awaiting it with endurance.

The Spirit Groans To Help Us In Our Present Weakness

26 And similarly also the Spirit helps our weakness. For we do not know what we should pray as we ought-to, but the Spirit Himself intercedes-for us with inexpressible groanings. 27 And the One searching our hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He is interceding for the saints in accordance with God.

This Means God Is Working All Things Together Toward Our Glorification

28 And we know that all things are working-together for good for the ones loving God, the ones being called ones according to His purpose. 29 Because whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be similar-to-the-form of the image of His Son, so that He might be firstborn among many brothers. 30 And whom He predestined, these He also called. And whom He called, these He also declared-righteous. And whom He declared righteous, these He also glorified.

So What Shall We Say To All This? If God Is For Us, Who Will Condemn Us?

31 Therefore, what shall we say to these things? If [at] God is for us, who is against us? 32 He Who indeed did not spare His own Son but handed Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely-give us all things? 33 Who will bring-a-charge against the chosen ones of God? God is the One declaring-righteous! 34 Who is the one who will condemn? Christ Jesus is the One having died, but more, having been raised, Who also is at the right hand of God, Who also intercedes for us!

Nothing Can Separate Us From Christ’s Love; We Are Conquerors Through Him

35 What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 Just as it has been written [in Ps 44:22] that “For your sake we are being put-to-death the whole day. We were considered as sheep for slaughter”. 37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly-conquer through the One having loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things coming, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. — Romans 8 | Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT) Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing Cross References: Genesis 3:17; Genesis 5:29; Deuteronomy 14:1; 2 Samuel 16:12; 1 Kings 8:57; 2 Chronicles 31:5; Job 37:19; Psalm 139:1; Isaiah 50:8; Jeremiah 12:4; Jeremiah 12:11; Hosea 1:10; Matthew 5:9; Matthew 7:11; Matthew 28:10; Mark 14:36; Mark 16:19; Luke 8:15; Luke 20:36; John 1:12; John 3:16; John 17:22; Acts 3:21; Acts 20:32; Romans 4:18; Romans 5:16; Romans 6:14; Romans 6:21; Romans 6:23; Romans 7:5; Romans 7:18; Romans 8:23; Romans 9:23-24; Romans 11:29; 1 Corinthians 9:27; 2 Corinthians 1:5; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Galatians 2:20; Galatians 5:17; Galatians 5:19; Colossians 2:18; Colossians 3:5; Philippians 3:10; James 4:4; 1 John 2:1

Romans 8 Study Bible

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A Field Is Sown With Good And Bad Seed: At Harvest The Weeds Will Be Burned

24 He put-before them another parable, saying, “The kingdom of the heavens became-like a man having sown good seed in his field. 25 But during the men’s sleeping, his enemy came and re-sowed darnel between the wheat, and went away. 26 Now when the grass budded and produced fruit, then the darnel appeared also. 27 And having come to him, the slaves of the house-master said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then from where does it have the darnel?’ 28 And the one said to them, ‘A hostile man did this’. And the slaves say to him, ‘Then do you want us, having gone, to collect them?’ 29 But the one says, ‘No, that while collecting the darnel, you may not perhaps uproot the wheat together with them. 30 Permit both to grow together until the harvest. And at the time of the harvest I will say to the harvesters, “Collect first the darnel, and bind them into bundles so-as to burn them up. But gather the wheat into my barn”.

The Mustard Seed: God’s Kingdom Will Start Very Small And Grow Very Large

31 He put-before them another parable, saying, “The kingdom of the heavens is like a seed of a mustard-plant, which having taken, a man sowed in his field— 32 which is smaller than all the seeds, but when it grows is larger than the garden-plants. And it becomes a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and are nesting in its branches”.

Like Leaven In Bread, God’s Kingdom Will Permeate The World

33 He spoke another parable to them, “The kingdom of the heavens is like leaven, which having taken, a woman concealed into three measures of wheat-flour until which time the whole thing was leavened”.

Jesus Spoke In Parables In Fulfillment of Psalm 78:2

34 Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables. And He was speaking nothing to them apart from a parable, 35 so that the thing might be fulfilled having been spoken through the prophet saying “I will open My mouth in parables. I will utter things having been hidden since the foundation of the world” [Ps 78:2].

Jesus Teaches His Disciples Using Parables

36 Then, having left the crowds, He went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Make-clear to us the parable of the darnel of the field”. 37 And the One, having responded, said—

Jesus Explains The Parable of The Good And Bad Seed Sown In The Field

“The one sowing the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 And the field is the world. And the good seed— these are the sons of the kingdom. And the darnel are the sons of the evil one. 39 And the enemy having sown them is the devil. And the harvest is the conclusion of the age. And the harvesters are angels. 40 Therefore, just as the darnel is collected and burned up with fire, so it will be at the conclusion of the age. 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will collect out of His kingdom all the causes-of-falling and the ones doing lawlessness. 42 And they will throw them into the furnace of fire. In that place, there will be the weeping and the grinding of teeth. 43 Then the righteous ones will shine-forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let the one having ears, hear. — Matthew 13:24-43 | Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT) Disciples’ Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing Cross References: Genesis 18:6; 2 Samuel 23:6-7; Psalm 78:2; Psalm 104:12; Ezekiel 17:6; Daniel 3:6; Daniel 12:3; Zephaniah 1:3; Matthew 5:37; Matthew 8:20; Matthew 12:32; Matthew 13:1; Matthew 13:3-4; Matthew 13:44; Matthew 13:49; Matthew 17:20; Matthew 20:1; 1 Corinthians 15:42

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Notes: Matthew 13:24-43 contains Jesus's parable of the wheat and the weeds, which illustrates the coexistence of good and evil in the world and the final judgment at the end of the age. The parable describes a farmer who sows good seed, but an enemy sows weeds among it. The farmer's servants are told to let both grow together until the harvest, when angels will separate them, throwing the weeds into a fiery furnace while gathering the wheat into the barn. The meaning is that the world currently contains both true believers (wheat) and non-believers (weeds), and it is not the role of humans to separate them, but God's role to judge them at the end of time.

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Whoever Has Seen Me Has Seen the Father

9 Jesus says to him, “Am I with you all for so long a time, and you have not known Me, Philip?— the one having seen Me has seen the Father. How is it you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? I am not speaking the words which I am saying to you from Myself, but the Father abiding in Me is doing His works. 11 Be believing Me— that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Otherwise, be believing because of the works themselves. — John 14:9-11 | Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT) Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing. Cross References: John 1:14; John 3:2; John 5:19; John 5:36; John 8:19; John 10:38; John 14:24; Colossians 1:15

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Notes: John 14:9-11 explains that Jesus is the complete revelation of God the Father, so to see Jesus is to see the Father. Jesus states that the Father is in Him and He is in the Father, emphasizing their profound unity. He encourages his disciples to believe in this truth, even using the works He has performed as evidence, because He and the Father are one in purpose and action.

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Adoption to Sonship

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery again leading-to fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption by Whom we are crying-out “Abba! Father!” — Romans 8:15 | Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT) Disciples’ Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing Cross References: Mark 14:36; Romans 8:23; Romans 8:26; Romans 9:4; 1 Corinthians 2:12; 2 Corinthians 11:4; Galatians 2:4

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Romans 8:15 in all English translations

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But Be Doers of The Word, Not Hearers Only

22 But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves. 23 Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one is like a man considering the face of his birth in a mirror. — James 1:22-23 | Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT) Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing Cross References: Jeremiah 11:6; Matthew 7:24; Luke 6:46-47; Romans 2:13; 1 Corinthians 13:12; James 1:24

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Notes: James 1:22-23 urges believers to turn religious knowledge into actionable obedience, emphasizing that faith without action is self-deception.

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Give, And It Will Be Given To You

Be giving, and it will be given to you. They will give a good measure— having been pressed down, having been shaken, running over— into your fold [of the garment]. For with what measure you measure, it will be measured-back to you”. — Luke 6:38 | Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT) Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing Cross References: Psalm 79:12; Proverbs 19:17; Isaiah 65:6-7; Jeremiah 32:18; Matthew 7:2; Mark 4:24

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Notes: Luke 6:38 teaches the principle that the measure of generosity given to others will be returned in abundance. It emphasizes the idea of reciprocity, where those who give generously will receive a good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over. This verse suggests that the blessings we experience in life, whether material, relational, or spiritual, are a result of the kind of generosity we demonstrate in our interactions with others.

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Always Forgive One Another

21 Then having come to Him, Peter said to Him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me and I will forgive him? Up to seven-times?” 22 Jesus says to him, “I do not say to you up to seven-times, but up to seventy-times [and] seven. 23 For this reason, the kingdom of the heavens became-like a man who was a king, who wished to settle the account with his slaves. 24 And he having begun to settle it, one debtor of ten-thousand talents was brought to him. 25 But he not having the means to pay, the master ordered that he be sold— and his wife and his children and all that he has— and that it be paid. 26 Then the slave, having fallen, was prostrating-himself before him, saying, ‘Be patient with me and I will pay everything to you’. 27 And having felt-deep feelings [of compassion], the master of that slave released him and forgave him the loan. 28 But having gone out, that slave found one of his fellow-slaves who owed him a hundred denarii. And having seized him, he was choking him, saying, ‘Pay me, since you are owing me something’. 29 Then his fellow slave, having fallen, was begging him, saying, ‘Be patient with me and I will pay it to you’. 30 And the one was not willing, but having gone, he threw him into prison until he should pay the amount being owed. 31 Then his fellow slaves, having seen the things having taken place, were extremely grieved. And having come, they made-clear to their master all the things having taken place. 32 Then, having summoned him, his master says to him, ‘Evil slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. 33 Should not you also have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I also had mercy on you?’ 34 And having become angry, his master handed him over to the tormenters until which time he should pay all the amount being owed. 35 So also My heavenly Father will do to you if you do not forgive— each one his brother— from your hearts”. — Matthew 18:21-35 | Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT) Disciples’ Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing. Cross References: Genesis 4:24; Exodus 21:2; Exodus 22:3; 1 Chronicles 29:7; Proverbs 21:13; Proverbs 28:3; Matthew 2:11; Matthew 5:7; Matthew 6:14-15; Matthew 7:24; Matthew 8:2; Matthew 13:24; Matthew 14:9; Matthew 18:15; Matthew 25:15; Mark 6:37; Mark 11:26; Luke 7:42-43; Luke 17:4; Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 1:7; Colossians 4:7; James 2:13

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The Seriousness of Forgiveness

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Putting on the New Self

And let the peace of Christ be arbitrating in your hearts— into which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. — Colossians 3:15 | Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT) Disciples’ Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing Cross References: John 14:27; 1 Corinthians 10:17; Ephesians 2:14,15 and 16; Philippians 4:7; Colossians 3:17

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