Romans 8:1-9 ▼

1 Sentence of death therefore shall not pass upon those christians who do not lead a vicious life.

2 for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.

3 God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state.

4 so that the moral obligations of the law might be fulfilled by us, in living according to the spiritual, and not the carnal tenor thereof:

5 for they that are sensually affected, abandon themselves to sensuality, but the spiritual pursue their spiritual entertainments.

6 now sensual inclinations lead to death; but spiritual affections to a life of tranquillity.

7 because a sensual disposition of mind is averse to God: for it is not subject to the divine law, nor indeed can it be.

8 so that they who are in a carnal state, cannot be acceptable to the divine being, as for you,

9 you are not in such a state, but in a spiritual one, provided the divine spirit dwell in you, now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his.