On February 4th of this year I challenged a few people to memorize Romans chapter 8 in it's entirety. I told them to shoot for the first week of March to be finished. Needless to say memorizing Romans 8 in 4weeks was quite the tall order that I couldn't even accomplish myself. However, yesterday, April 7th, I completed Romans 8. This was only accomplished because 1) I have a desire to know God's word better and 2) I have some accountability with others on this. So, I know it's going to be a long post but here it goes... Romans 8 typing from memory. Please excuse any punctuation, capitalization errors...
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of Life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending His own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh and for those who live according to the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit. For to set the mind of the flesh is death but to set the mind of the spirit is life and peace. For the mind set of the flesh is hostile to God for it does not submit to God’s law, indeed it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
You however, are not in the flesh but are in the spirit, if in fact the spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness. If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you then he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His spirit who dwells in you.
So then brothers, we are debtors. Not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh, for if you live according to the flesh you will die but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live. For all who are led by the spirit of God are sons of God for you did not received the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear but you received the spirit of adoption as sons in whom we cry, Abba Father. The spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing to the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself would be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. And 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 first fruits of the spirt, grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for the adoption as sons the redemption of our bodies. In this hope we are saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope for who hopes for what he sees but if you hope for what you do not see you wait for it with patience.
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. And He who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for all who love God all things work together for the good for those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of His son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined He also called, and those whom He called He also justified, and those whom He justified He also Glorified.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us who can be against us? He who did not spare His own son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus who died, more than that who was raised from the dead, who sits at the right hand of God, who now indeed is interceding for us. What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger or sword? As it is written:
For Your sake we are being killed all day long
We are like sheep to be slaughtered.
No, in all these things you are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure that neither life nor death, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
You however, are not in the flesh but are in the spirit, if in fact the spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is life because of righteousness. If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you then he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His spirit who dwells in you.
So then brothers, we are debtors. Not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh, for if you live according to the flesh you will die but if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live. For all who are led by the spirit of God are sons of God for you did not received the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear but you received the spirit of adoption as sons in whom we cry, Abba Father. The spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing to the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself would be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. And 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 first fruits of the spirt, grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for the adoption as sons the redemption of our bodies. In this hope we are saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope for who hopes for what he sees but if you hope for what you do not see you wait for it with patience.
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. And He who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that for all who love God all things work together for the good for those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of His son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined He also called, and those whom He called He also justified, and those whom He justified He also Glorified.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us who can be against us? He who did not spare His own son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus who died, more than that who was raised from the dead, who sits at the right hand of God, who now indeed is interceding for us. What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger or sword? As it is written:
For Your sake we are being killed all day long
We are like sheep to be slaughtered.
No, in all these things you are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure that neither life nor death, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
