008:006 Because for the mind to be given up to earthly things means death; but for it to be given up to spiritual things means Life and peace. 008:007 Abandonment to earthly things is a state of enmity to God. Such a mind does not submit to God's Law, and indeed cannot do so. 008:008 And those whose hearts are absorbed in earthly things cannot please God. 008:009 You, however, are not devoted to earthly, but to spiritual things, if the Spirit of God is really dwelling in you; whereas if any man has not the Spirit of Christ, such a one does not belong to Him. 008:010 But if Christ is in you, though your body must die because of sin, yet your spirit has Life because of righteousness. 008:011 And if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead is dwelling in you, He who raised up Christ from the dead will give Life also to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you. 008:012 Therefore, brethren, it is not to our lower natures that we are under obligation that we should live by their rule. 008:013 For if you so live, death is near; but if, through being under the sway of the spirit, you are putting your old bodily habits to death, you will live. 008:014 For those who are led by God's Spirit are, all of them, God's sons. 008:015 You have not for the second time acquired the consciousness of being--a consciousness which fills you with terror. But you have acquired a deep inward conviction of having been adopted as sons--a conviction which prompts us to cry aloud, "Abba! our Father!" 008:016 The Spirit Himself bears witness, along with our own spirits, to the fact that we are children of God; 008:017 and if children, then heirs too--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ; if indeed we are sharers in Christ's sufferings, in order that we may also be sharers in His glory. 008:018 Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison with the glory which is soon to be manifested in us. 008:019 For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, is waiting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God. 008:020 For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it). 008:021 Yet there was always the hope that at last the Creation itself would also be set free from the thraldom of decay so as to enjoy the liberty that will attend the glory of the children of God. 008:022 For we know that the whole of Creation is groaning together in the pains of childbirth until this hour.