Romans 8 - my translation
Here's my translation of excerpts from Romans chapter 8 for a responsive creed.
There is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.
God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his own Son as a sacrifice for our sins.
Therefore you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. If through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live.
Now we call him, ‘Abba, Father,’ for his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children.
The Spirit helps us in our weakness:
For we do not know what to pray for as we ought,
but the Spirit himself pleads for us
with wordless groanings.
The Searcher of our hearts understands the Spirit as the Spirit, aligned with God, pleads for the saints.
Now we know, for those loving God, all things co-labor toward good, for those who are called according to the proposal of adoption.
If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
No one — for God himself has given us right standing with himself.
Who then will condemn us?
No one — for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Can trouble, or distress, or persecution, or hunger, or poverty, or danger, or war?
No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love.
Neither death nor life, neither angels nor rulers, neither things present nor the unknowns of tomorrow, neither powers in the sky nor in the earth below — nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
