Bible

Romans 8:9-16 (MSG)

Topics in Book | Outline of Book | Facts About Book | Commentary | Parallel Verse

NET | AMP | NIV | NIV-2010 | NASB | TNIV | NIRV | ESV | KJV | ASV | RSV | Good News | NLT | CEV | Basic | MSG | Spanish | French

Previous Chapter | Previous Verse | Whole Chapter | Next Verse | Next Chapter

⁹ But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. ¹⁰ But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells--even though you still experience all the limitations of sin--you yourself experience life on God's terms. ¹¹ It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, a ¹² So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. ¹³ There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. ¹⁴ God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go! ¹⁵ This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?" ¹⁶ God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children.


This passage relates to the following topic(s):
(v. 15) Fear - Not a slave of fear - we are sons of God

This passage is referenced in the following quiet time(s):
(v. 9) Blessings In Christ (part VII) (2012-03-11)
(v. 9) Prayer of the Righeous - Knowing God through His Word (part I) (2013-03-20)
(v. 10) Prayer of the Righeous - Knowing God through His Word (part I) (2013-03-20)
(v. 11) Prayer of the Righeous - Knowing God through His Word (part I) (2013-03-20)
(v. 12) Prayer of the Righeous - Knowing God through His Word (part I) (2013-03-20)
(v. 13) Prayer of the Righeous - Knowing God through His Word (part I) (2013-03-20)
(v. 14) Prayer of the Righeous - Knowing God through His Word (part I) (2013-03-20)
(v. 15) Fearing God - Awe and Gratitude (2011-08-28)
(v. 15) Prayer of the Righeous - Knowing God through His Word (part I) (2013-03-20)
(v. 15) Prayer of the Righeous - Knowing God through His Word (part I) (2013-03-20)
(v. 15) Teach Us To Pray - Abba Father (2008-08-26)
(v. 16) Prayer of the Righeous - Knowing God through His Word (part I) (2013-03-20)
(v. 16) Prayer of the Righeous - Knowing God through His Word (part I) (2013-03-20)

Definition(s):
Jesus (Jeez-us): savior; deliverer
So (Soh):