Romanos 8

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.*8:1 NU omits "who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit" 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; 7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be. 8 Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his. 10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. 15 For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba!*8:15 Abba is an Aramaic word for "Father" or "Daddy", which can be used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven. Father!"

16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us. 19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. 23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body. 24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees? 25 But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. 27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.*8:29 The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings." 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? 33 Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is written,

"For your sake we are killed all day long.

We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."✝8:36 Psalms 44:22

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Te Ora i roto i te Wairua

1 Nā, kāhore e tau te hē ināianei ki te hunga i roto i a Karaiti Īhu. 2 Nā te ture hoki a te Wairua o te ora i roto i a Karaiti Īhu ahau i ātea ai i te ture a te hara, a te mate. 3 Ko te mea kīhai i taea e te ture, he ngoikore nōna i te kikokiko, tonoa mai ana e te Atua tāna Tama, i te āhua o te kikokiko hara, hei whakahere anō mō te hara, ā, whakataua ana e ia te hē ki te hara i roto i te kikokiko. 4 Kia rite ai tō te ture tikanga i roto i a tātou, kāhore nei e haere i runga i tā te kikokiko, engari, i tā te Wairua.

5 Ko te hunga hoki i runga i tā te kikokiko, whakaaro ana rātou ki ō te kikokiko; ko te hunga ia i runga i tā te Wairua, ki ō te Wairua. 6 Ko tō te kikokiko whakaaro hoki he mate, ko tō te Wairua ia he ora, he rangimārie. 7 He tikanga whawhai hoki ki te Atua te whakaaro ki te kikokiko e kore nei hoki e ngāwari ki te ture a te Atua, kāhore anō e āhei kia ngāwari; 8 ā, e kore e taea e te hunga i te kikokiko te whakamānawareka ki te Atua.

9 Otiia, kāhore koutou i te kikokiko, engari, i te Wairua, ki te mea e noho ana te Wairua o te Atua i roto i a koutou. Ki te kāhore ia te Wairua o te Karaiti i tētahi, ehara tēnei i a ia. 10 Tēnā, ki te mea kei roto a te Karaiti i a koutou, he tūpāpaku te tinana i te hara, he ora ia te wairua i te tika. 11 Ki te noho ia i roto i a koutou te Wairua o te kaiwhakaara o Īhu i te hunga mate, māna, mā te kaiwhakaara o Karaiti Īhu i roto i te hunga mate, e whakaora ake anō ō koutou tinana mate ki tōna Wairua e noho nā i roto i a koutou.

12 Nā reira, e ōku tēina, kāhore he tikanga o te kikokiko kei runga i a tātou, kia whai tātou i tāna. 13 Ki te noho hoki koutou i runga i tā te kikokiko, ka mate koutou; ki te mea ia ka whakamate koutou i ngā mahi a te tinana, he mea nā te Wairua, ka ora koutou. 14 Ko te hunga hoki e ārahina ana e te Wairua o te Atua, he tama rātou nā te Atua. 15 He teka hoki he wairua pononga kua riro nei i a koutou, e mataku ai anō koutou; engari, kua riro i a koutou te Wairua e mea ana i a koutou hei tamariki ake, e karanga ai koutou, "E Apa, e Pā!" 16 Ko taua Wairua rā anō hei whakaae ake ki ō tātou wairua, he tamariki tātou nā te Atua. 17 Ki te mea hoki he tamariki, kāti mō tātou te kāinga; mō tātou te kāinga o te Atua, mō tātou tahi ko te Karaiti; kia mamae rawa ake ai tātou tahi me ia, ka whakakorōriatia ngātahitia tātou me ia.

Te Korōria kei te Haere mai

18 Ki tōku whakaaro iho hoki, he kore noa iho ngā mamae o tēnei wā, ki te whakaritea ki te korōria e whakakitea mai ki a tātou ā mua. 19 Ko te tūmanako hoki o te mea i hangā e tatari ana ki te whakakitenga mai o ngā tama a te Atua. 20 Kua meinga hoki te tekateka noa hei rangatira mō te mea i hangā, ehara i te mea nā tēnei ake i whakaae, engari, nā tā te kaiwhakarite i pai ai, i runga i te tūmanako, 21 tērā taua mea i hangā e whakaateatia mai i te whakataurekarekatanga a te pirau, whakarangatiratia ake ki roto ki te korōria o ngā tamariki a te Atua.

22 E mōhio ana hoki tātou, kei te ngunguru tahi, kei te mamae tahi, ngā mea hanga katoa taea noatia tēnei rā. 23 Ehara i te mea ko tērā anake, engari, ko tātou anō hoki kua whiwhi nei ki te hua mātāmua, arā ki te Wairua, inā, e auē ana hoki tātou i roto i a tātou, e tatari ana ki te whakatamarikitanga, arā ki te whakaoranga o ō tātou tinana. 24 Nā te tūmanako hoki tātou i ora ai. Tēnā, ka kitea te mea e tūmanakohia atu ana, kore ake te tūmanako. Ko wai oti e tūmanako ki te mea e kitea nei e ia? 25 Ki te tūmanako atu ia tātou ki te mea kāhore nei e kitea, kātahi ka āta tāria māriretia atu e tātou.

26 Waihoki ko te wairua hei hoa mō tātou e ngoikore nei. Kāhore hoki tātou e mātau me pēhea e tika ai tā tātou īnoi; otiia, ko te Wairua tonu anō te īnoi ana mō tātou ki ōna auē e kore nei e taea te whakahua. 27 Ā, ko te kaititiro i ngā ngākau, e mōhio ana ki te hinengaro o te Wairua, ko tērā hoki e īnoi ana mō te hunga tapu i runga i tā te Atua i pai ai.

28 Nā, e mātau ana tātou, kei te mahi tahi ngā mea katoa i te pai mō te hunga e aroha ana ki te Atua, arā mō te hunga i karangatia i runga i tāna i whakatakoto ai. 29 Ko āna hoki i mōhio ai i mua, i whakaritea anō e ia i mua kia rite ki te āhua o tāna Tama, kia ai ia hei muanga i roto i ngā tēina tokomaha. 30 Ā, ko āna i whakarite ai i mua, ko ēnā anō i karangatia e ia; ā, ko āna i karanga ai, ko ēnā anō i whakatikaia e ia; ā, ko āna i whakatika ai, ko ēnā anō i whakakorōriatia e ia.

Te Aroha o te Atua i roto i a Īhu Karaiti

31 Nā, kia pēhea tā tātou kōrero ki ēnei mea? Ki te mea ko te Atua hei hoa mō tātou, ko wai hei whawhai ki a tātou? 32 Ko ia kīhai nei i kaiponu i tāna ake Tama, heoi, tukua mai ana e ia mō tātou katoa, e kore ianei ia e tāpiri noa mai ki a ia i ngā mea katoa mō tātou? 33 Ko wai hei whakapā hē ki ā te Atua i whiriwhiri ai? Ko te Atua rā hei whakatika. 34 Ko wai ianei hei whakatau hē? Ko Karaiti Īhu rā, i mate nei, āe rawa hoki, ko ia rā kua whakaarahia ake nei i te mate, ā, kei te ringa matau o te Atua, ko ia hoki kei te īnoi mō tātou. 35 Mā wai tātou e momotu kē i te aroha o te Karaiti? Mā te whakapāwera rānei, mā te mamae, mā te whakatoi, mā te matekai, mā te kākahukore, mā te mate ka tata, mā te hoari rānei? 36 Ko te mea hoki ia i tuhituhia:

"Nā te whakaaro ki a koe

mātou i whakamatea ai i te rā roa nei;

kīia ana mātou hei hipi e patua ana."

37 Engari, i ēnei mea katoa hira ake te wikitōria i a tātou, he mea nāna i aroha nei ki a tātou. 38 Ū tonu hoki tōku whakaaro, e kore te mate, te ora rānei, e kore ngā anahera, ngā rangatiratanga rānei, e kore ngā mea onāianei, e kore ngā mea e puta mai ā mua, e kore ngā mana, 39 e kore te tiketike, e kore te hōhonu, e kore tētahi atu mea hangā, e kaha ki te momotu i a tātou i te aroha o te Atua, i tērā i roto nei i a Karaiti Īhu, i tō tātou Ariki.