Living by the Power of God's Spirit
1 If you belong to Christ Jesus, you won't be punished. 2 The Holy Spirit will give you life that comes from Christ Jesus and will set you free from sin and death. 3 The Law of Moses cannot do this, because our selfish desires make the Law weak. But God set you free when he sent his own Son to be like us sinners and to be a sacrifice for our sin. God used Christ's body to condemn sin. 4 He did this, so that we would do what the Law commands by obeying the Spirit instead of our own desires.
5 People who are ruled by their desires think only of themselves. Everyone who is ruled by the Holy Spirit thinks about spiritual things. 6 If our minds are ruled by our desires, we will die. But if our minds are ruled by the Spirit, we will have life and peace. 7 Our desires fight against God, because they do not and cannot obey God's laws. 8 If we follow our desires, we cannot please God.
9 You are no longer ruled by your desires, but by God's Spirit, who lives in you. People who don't have the Spirit of Christ in them don't belong to him. 10 But Christ lives in you. So you are alive because God has accepted you, even though your bodies must die because of your sins. 11 Yet God raised Jesus to life! God's Spirit now lives in you, and he will raise you to life by his Spirit.
12 My dear friends, we must not live to satisfy our desires. 13 If you do, you will die. But you will live, if by the help of God's Spirit you say “No” to your desires. 14 Only those people who are led by God's Spirit are his children. 15 God's Spirit doesn't make us slaves who are afraid of him. Instead, we become his children and call him our Father. 16 God's Spirit makes us sure that we are his children. 17 His Spirit lets us know that together with Christ we will be given what God has promised. We will also share in the glory of Christ, because we have suffered with him.
A Wonderful Future for God's People
18 I am sure what we are suffering now cannot compare with the glory that will be shown to us. 19 In fact, all creation is eagerly waiting for God to show who his children are. 20 Meanwhile, creation is confused, but not because it wants to be confused. God made it this way in the hope 21 that creation would be set free from decay and would share in the glorious freedom of his children. 22 We know that all creation is still groaning and is in pain, like a woman about to give birth.
23 The Spirit makes us sure about what we will be in the future. But now we groan silently, while we wait for God to show that we are his children. This means that our bodies will also be set free. 24 And this hope is what saves us. But if we already have what we hope for, there is no need to keep on hoping. 25 However, we hope for something we have not yet seen, and we patiently wait for it.
26 In certain ways we are weak, but the Spirit is here to help us. For example, when we don't know what to pray for, the Spirit prays for us in ways that cannot be put into words. 27 All of our thoughts are known to God. He can understand what is in the mind of the Spirit, as the Spirit prays for God's people. 28 We know that God is always at work for the good of everyone who loves him. They are the ones God has chosen for his purpose, 29 and he has always known who his chosen ones would be. He had decided to let them become like his own Son, so his Son would be the first of many children. 30 God then accepted the people he had already decided to choose, and he has shared his glory with them.
God's Love
31 What can we say about all this? If God is on our side, can anyone be against us? 32 God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did this, won't he freely give us everything else? 33 If God says his chosen ones are acceptable to him, can anyone bring charges against them? 34 Or can anyone condemn them? No indeed! Christ died and was raised to life, and now he is at God's right side, speaking to him for us. 35 Can anything separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble, suffering, and hard times, or hunger and nakedness, or danger and death? 36 It is exactly as the Scriptures say,
“For you we face death
all day long.
We are like sheep
on their way
to be butchered.”
37 In everything we have won more than a victory because of Christ who loves us. 38 I am sure that nothing can separate us from God's love—not life or death, not angels or spirits, not the present or the future, 39 and not powers above or powers below. Nothing in all creation can separate us from God's love for us in Christ Jesus our Lord!
VIII.
Dzeive ikš gora.
1 Tai tad, tagad nav nikō nūtīsojama pi tim, kas ir ikš Jezus Kristus (un vairs pēc mīsas nadzeivoj). 2 Un gora lykums, kas atdzeivynoj ikš Jezus Kristus mani atbreivōja nu grāka un nōves lykuma. 3 Kō navarēja panōkt lykums, jo jys deļ mīsas beja bezspēceigs, tū padareja Dīvs, grāka dēļ syutūt sovu poša Dālu grēceigōs mīsas izskotā un jō mīsā grāku nūtīsojūt, 4 lai mes, kas pēc gora, bet na pēc mīsas dzeivojam, izpiļdeitu lykuma pīsacejumus, 5 jo tī, kas dzeivoj pēc mīsas, tīkoj pēc tō, kas ir mīseigs; bet tī, kas dzeivoj pēc gora — pēc tō, kas ir goreigs. 6 Mīseigō steigsme nas nōvi, bet gora steigsme — dzeivi un mīru. 7 Tōpēc mīsas steigsme Dīvam ir preteiga, jo jei napasakļaun Dīva lykumam un tō jei arī navar. 8 Kas dzeivoj pēc mīsas, tys navar byut pateikams Dīvam. 9 Jyus na mīsai, bet goram dzeivojat, jo tik jyusūs mit Dīva gors. Kam Kristus gora nava, tys pi Jō napīdar. 10 Bet jo jyusūs ir Kristus, tad, lai gon mīsa grāka dēļ ir padūta nōvei, tūmār gors dzeivoj attaisnōšonas dēļ. 11 Jo jyusūs dzeivoj Tō gors, kas Jezu pīcēle nu myrūnim, tad Tys, kas Jezu Kristu pīcēle nu myrūnim, atdzeivynōs arī jyusu mērsteigū mīsu caur sovu goru, kas jyusūs mit.
Tīseibas uz svātlaimeibu.
12 Tai tad, brōli, pret mīsu mums nav pīnōkuma dzeivōt mīseigi. 13 Jo jyus dzeivōsit pēc mīsas, jyus nūmērsit, bet jo jyus caur goru mīsas kaisleibas nūmērdēsit, jyus dzeivōsit. 14 Vysi, kas Dīva goram pasadūd, ir Dīva bārni. 15 Jyus asat sajāmuši na vērdzeibas goru, ka jums otkon byutu jōsabeist, bet gon bārnu (tīseibu) goru, kas mums ļaun saukt: Abba — Tāvs! 16 Tys Gors pats myusu goram līcynoj, ka mes asom Dīva bārni. 17 Bet jo asom bārni, tad arī mantinīki, — Dīva mantinīki un Kristus leidzmantinīki; mums gon ar Jū jōcīš, lai ar Jū byut izslavātim.
18 Es asmu pōrlīcynōts, ka šō pasauļa cīsšonas ir nīks saleidzynojūt ar nōkamū gūdeibu, kas pi mums pasarōdeis. 19 Pat radeibas ar ilgōšonūs gaida uz Dīva bārnu pasarōdeišonu. 20 Arī radeiba ir padūta iznīceibai, lai gon na labprōt, bet caur tū, kas jū pakļōve un jamā īdvēse cereibu, 21 ka arī poša radeiba nu iznīceibas vērdzeibas byus izglōbta Dīva bārnu jaukajai breiveibai. 22 Mes zynom, ka vysa radeiba leidza vaimaņoj un žālojās leidz pat šai dīnai. 23 Un na tik vin jei, bet arī mes poši, kam ir gora prīkšrūceibas, sevī vaižam gaideidami (Dīva) bārnu tīseibas, myusu mīsas izpesteišonu, 24 jo mes asom izglōbti caur cereibu. Bet cereiba, kas acimradzama, nav nikaida cereiba. Jo kū tad veļ lai cer tys, kas tū jau redz (izapyldam)? 25 Bet jo mes cerejam uz tū, kō mes veļ naradzam, tod mes tō gaidom ar pacīteibu.
26 Arī Gors tai pat nōk myusu vōjeibai paleigā. Mes nazynam kō lyugt kai pīnōkās, bet Gors pats par mums aizastōj ar naizsokamu vaidēšonu. 27 Un tys, kas caurlyukoj sirdis, zyna uz kū Gors steidzās, un ka Jys svātūs aizstōv tai, kai tū grib Dīvs.
28 Un mes zynom, ka tim, kas mīļoj Dīvu, vyss nōk par lobu, tys ir tim, kas pēc Jo lāmuma ir paaicynōti (lai byutu svāti), 29 jo tūs, kurus kai taidus īprīkš pazyna, tūs īprīkš arī pazeimōja byut leidzeigim sova Dāla attālam, lai Tys byutu pyrmdzymtais storp daudzim brōlim. 30 Un kurus Jys īprīkš pazeimōja, tūs arī paaicynōja; kurus paaicynōja, tūs padareja taisneigus, kurūs Jys padareja taisneigus, tūs arī uzslavēja.
31 Kū tad mes par tū lai sokom? Jo Dīvs ir ar mums, kas tad var byut pret mums? 32 Jo Jys nasaudzēja sova vīneigō Dāla, bet gon myusu vysu dēļ Jū nūdeve, kai tad lai nadōvynōtu mums leidz ar Jū vysa cyta? 33 Kas tad lai apsyudz Dīva izlaseitūs? Vai Dīvs, kas jūs padareja taisneigus? 34 Un kas tad lai nūtīsoj? Vai Jezus Kristus, kas nūmyra un ir augšamcēlīs, kas sēd pa Dīva lobajai (rūkai) un par mums aizbiļd?
35 Kas tad myusus lai atraun nu Kristus mīlesteibas? Vai vōrgi, vai tryukums, vai vojōšonas, vai bods, vai plykums, vai brīsmas, vai zūbyns? 36 Stōv gon raksteits: Tevis dēļ mes teikam nōvāti ikdīnas, myusus īskaita leidzeigus kaunamom vuškom. 37 Bet vysā šamā mes uzvaram caur tū, kas myusus ir nūmīļōjis. 38 Un es asmu pōrlīcynōts, ka ni nōve, ni dzeive, ni engeļi, ni vareibas, (ni spāki), ni tagadejōs, ni nōkamōs (lītas), 39 ni augstums, ni dziļums un ni kaida cyta radeiba myusu naspēs atraut nu Dīva mīlesteibas, kura ir ikš myusu Kunga Jezus Kristus.
