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Romans 8:15 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” "
Romans 8:15
Verse in Context
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13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by 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 children of God.
15 For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are 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.
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Romans 8:1
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."
Romans 8:2
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death."
Romans 8:3
"For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,"
Romans 8:4
"that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit."
Romans 8:5
"For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit."
Romans 8:6
"For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;"
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