“If your thinking is controlled by your sinful self, there is spiritual death. But if your thinking is controlled by the Spirit, there is life and peace.
Why is this true? Because anyone whose thinking is controlled by their sinful self is against God. They refuse to obey God’s law. And really they are not able to obey it.
Those who are ruled by their sinful selves cannot please God.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.8.6-8.ERV
“People who live following their sinful selves think only about what they want. But those who live following the Spirit are thinking about what the Spirit wants them to do.
But you are not ruled by your sinful selves. You are ruled by the Spirit, if that Spirit of God really lives in you. But whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ.
Your body will always be dead because of sin. But if Christ is in you, then the Spirit gives you life, because Christ made you right with God.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.8.5.ERV
“The law was without power because it was made weak by our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do: He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that everyone else uses for sin. God sent him to be an offering to pay for sin. So God used a human life to destroy sin. He did this so that we could be right just as the law said we must be. Now we don’t live following our sinful selves. We live following the Spirit.”
ERV
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.8.3-4.ERV
“So now anyone who is in Christ Jesus is not judged guilty.
That is because in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit that brings life made you free. It made you free from the law that brings sin and death.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.8.1-2.ERV
“So I have learned this rule: When I want to do good, evil is there with me.
In my mind I am happy with God’s law. But I see another law working in my body. That law makes war against the law that my mind accepts.
That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and that law makes me its prisoner.
What a miserable person I am! Who will save me from this body that brings me death? I thank God for his salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin.”
ERV
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.7.21-25.ERV
“I don’t understand why I act the way I do. I don’t do the good I want to do, and I do the evil I hate.
And if I don’t want to do what I do, that means I agree that the law is good. But I am not really the one doing the evil. It is sin living in me that does it.
Yes, I know that nothing good lives in me—I mean nothing good lives in the part of me that is not spiritual.
I want to do what is good, but I don’t do it. I don’t do the good that I want to do. I do the evil that I don’t want to do.
So if I do what I don’t want to do, then I am not really the one doing it. It is the sin living in me that does it.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.7.15-20.ERV
“Now the law is holy, and the command is holy and right and good.
Does this mean that something that is good brought death to me? No, it was sin that used the good command to bring me death. This shows how terrible sin really is. It can use a good command to produce a result that shows sin at its very worst.”
https://bible.com/bible/406/rom.7.12-13.ERV
