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For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. If you serve Christ with this attitude, you will please God, and others will approve of you, too. —Romans 14:17-18 NLT Key Thought Who can argue with...

And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. —Romans 8:27 NLT Key Thought After the incredible promise of the previous verse and the Spirit's intercession for us (Romans 8:26 ESV), Paul adds promise...

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. —Romans 8:26 ESV Key Thought Nearly all of us have been at this desperate place. Our souls are brittle and dry. All our...

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. —Romans 8:22-23 ESV...

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. —Romans 8:16 NIV Key Thought We can believe that we are God's children. We can think it. We can desire it with all of our hearts. We can pray for it. But, the real validation happens when the Holy Spirit joins with the...

For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. —Romans 8:14 NIV Key Thought Parents lead their children till they are ready for life on their own. As we cry out to God as our "Abba, Father" (Romans 8:15), God leads us. We are his young children, and we never outgrow our...

So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, "Abba, Father." —Romans 8:15 NLT Key Thought Abba! The first syllables some babies utter. The name for father in the language Jesus...

Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. —Romans 8:12-13 NLT Key Thought We...

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. —Romans 8:11 ESV Key Thought The Holy Spirit brings life to our mortal bodies by bringing Jesus alive in...

And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. —Romans 8:10 NLT Key Thought Everything that lives is actually in the process of dying — everything, that is, except for those animated and...

The mind controlled by the sinful nature is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. —Romans 8:6 NIV Key Thought What do you want from your limited days on earth? Among other things, you probably want to enjoy life and have every moment of it bring joy and peace. There is...

Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. —Romans 8:5 NLT Key Thought We don't like to be controlled. However, we will be controlled either by our sinful nature or by the...

So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. —Romans 8:1-2 NLT Key Thought This phrase is such a great description of our identity — "those who...

But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. —Romans 7:6 NIV Key Thought We could not, and cannot, keep the law of God completely. Trying to be righteous when one failure...

For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God. —Romans 2:28-29 ESV Key Thought Prejudice is ungodly. It...

The Good News is about [God's] Son. In his earthly life he was born into King David's family line, and he was shown to be the Son of God when he was raised from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit. He is Jesus Christ our Lord. —Romans 1:3-4 NLT Key Thought Jesus is the Son — David's Son...

The Scriptures tell us, "The first man, Adam, became a living person." But the last Adam — that is, Christ — is a life-giving Spirit. —1 Corinthians 15:45 NLT Key Thought Death, the immutable reality of our physical mortality, is an enemy (1 Corinthians 15:26). Yes, there are times for those...

And we have received God's Spirit (not the world's spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit's words to explain...

Who else [besides God] has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers? Who else knows the weight of the earth or has weighed the mountains and hills on a scale? Who is able to advise the Spirit of the Lord? Who knows enough to give him advice or teach him...

No, the wisdom we speak of is the mystery of God — his plan that was previously hidden, even though he made it for our ultimate glory before the world began. But the rulers of this world have not understood it; if they had, they would not have crucified our glorious Lord. ... But people who...