MODERN LITERAL VERSION

8:1 Consequently now there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
8:2 For* the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
8:3 For* the law being powerless, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh;
8:4 in order that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who are not walking according to the flesh, but walk according to the Spirit.
8:5 For* those who are according to the flesh are mindful of the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit are mindful of the things of the Spirit.
8:6 For* the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace;
8:7 because the mind-set of the flesh is enmity at God; for* it is not subject to the law of God, for* neither is it able to be;
8:8 and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
8:9 But you* are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed* the Spirit of God is dwelling in you*. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
8:10 But if Christ is in you*, the body is indeed dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
8:11 But if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus up from the dead is dwelling in you*, he who raised the Christ up from the dead will also give-life to your* mortal bodies through his Spirit who is dwelling in you*.

8:12 Then* consequently, brethren, we are debtors but not to the flesh, not to live according to the flesh;
8:13 for* if you* live according to the flesh, you* are about to die, but if you* put to death the practices of the body in spirit, you* will live.
8:14 For* as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
8:15 For* you* did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you* received the spirit of sonship, in which we cry, Abba, Father.
8:16 The Spirit himself is testifying with our spirit, that we are children of God;
8:17 and if children, then heirs; indeed, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed* we are suffering together with him, that* we might also be glorified together with him.

8:18 For* I reason that the sufferings of this current time are not worthy in comparison with the glory which is about to be revealed to us.
8:19 For* the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the revealing of the sons of God.
8:20 For* the creation was subjected to futility, not voluntarily, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
8:21 that even the creation itself will be made free from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
8:22 For* we know that the whole creation groans and travails together in pain till now.
8:23 But not only they, but we ourselves also who have the first-fruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves are groaning in ourselves, waiting for our sonship, that is, the redemption of our body.
8:24 For* we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for* who also hopes for what he sees?
8:25 But if we hope for what we do not see, then we are waiting for it through endurance.

8:26 Now likewise* the Spirit is also jointly helping our weaknesses; for* we do not know what we are praying for as we ought, but the Spirit himself is interceding on our behalf with unspeakable groans;
8:27 and he who is searching the hearts knows what the mind-set of the Spirit is, because he is interceding on behalf of the holy-ones according to the will of God.
8:28 Now we know that all things work together toward good, to those who love* God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
8:29 Because, whom he knew beforehand, he also predetermined to be transformed to the image of his Son, to this end, he himself might be the firstborn among many brethren;
8:30 and whom he predetermined, he also called these and whom he called, he also justified these and whom he justified, he also glorified these.

8:31 Then* what will we say to these things? If God is working on our behalf, who is against us?
8:32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up on our behalf all, how will he not also grant to us all things with him?
8:33 Who shall accuse anything against God's chosen? It is God who justifies.
8:34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ Jesus who died, but also rather, who was also raised up from the dead, who is by the right hand of God, who also is interceding on our behalf.

8:35 Who will separate us from the love* of Christ? Shall affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?
8:36 Just-as it has been written, ‘Because of you we are put to death all day long. We were counted as sheep of the slaughter.' {Ps. 44:22}
8:37 But we are victorious in all these things through him who loved* us.
8:38 For* I have confidence, that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor present things, nor future things,
8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love* of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.