Roma 8:12-15

8:12 So then, ¹  brothers and sisters, ²  we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh 8:13 (for if you live according to the flesh, you will ³  die), ⁴  but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live. 8:14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are ⁵  the sons of God. 8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, ⁶  but you received the Spirit of adoption, ⁷  by whom ⁸  we cry, “Abba, Father.”

[8:12]  ¹ tn There is a double connective here that cannot be easily preserved in English: “consequently therefore,” emphasizing the conclusion of what he has been arguing.

[8:12]  ² tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[8:13]  ³ tn Grk “are about to, are certainly going to.”

[8:13]  ⁴ sn This remark is parenthetical to Paul’s argument.

[8:14]  ⁵ tn Grk “For as many as are being led by the Spirit of God, these are.”

[8:15]  ⁶ tn Grk “slavery again to fear.”

[8:15]  ⁷ tn The Greek term υἱοθεσία (Juioqesia) was originally a legal technical term for adoption as a son with full rights of inheritance. BDAG 1024 s.v. notes, “a legal t.t. of ‘adoption’ of children, in our lit., i.e. in Paul, only in a transferred sense of a transcendent filial relationship between God and humans (with the legal aspect, not gender specificity, as major semantic component).”

[8:15]  ⁸ tn Or “in that.”