Sojourn Forty: Romans Eight

Romans 8:1
So now there is no __________ for those who ______ to ________ _________.

Romans 8:2
For the ______ of the ___-giving _____ has freed you through ______ ______ from the power of ___ that leads to ______.

Romans 8:3
The law of _____ could not save us, because of our ______ ______. But ___ put into effect a _______ plan to save us. He sent his own ___ in a human body like ours, except that ours are _____. God destroyed sin’s ______ over us by giving his Son as a ______ for our sins.

Romans 8:4
He did this so that the _________ of the law would be fully ________ for us who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the _____.

Romans 8:5
Those who are _______ by the sinful nature think about _____ things, but those who are ______ by the ______ ______ think about things that _____ the Spirit.

Romans 8:6
If your sinful nature ______ your ____, there is ____. But if the Holy Spirit controls your ____, there is ____ and _____.

Romans 8:7
For the sinful ______ is always _____ to God. It never did ____ God’s _____, and it ______ _____.

Romans 8:8
That’s why _____ who are still under the _____ of their _____ ______ can never please ____.

Romans 8:9
But you are not _______ by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the _____ if you have the Spirit of ____ living in you. (And remember that those who ___ ____ have the Spirit of Christ living in them are ___ _______ at all.)

Romans 8:10
Since _____ lives within you, even though your ____ will ___ because of sin, your spirit is ____ because you have been made ______ ______ _____.

Romans 8:11
The Spirit of God, who raised ____ from the ____, lives in you. And just as he raised _____ from the dead, he will give ____ to your ______ ______ by this same _____ living within you.

Romans 8:12
So, dear _______ and ______, you have no ________ whatsoever to do what your _____ nature _____ you to do.

Romans 8:13
For if you keep on _______ it, you will ____. But if through the _____ of the ____ ______ you turn from it and its evil _____, you will ____.

Romans 8:14
For all who are ___ by the ______ of God are ______ of God.

Romans 8:15
So you should not be like _______, fearful _____. You should behave instead like God’s very own ______, adopted into his family — calling him “_____, dear ______.”

Romans 8:16
For his Holy Spirit _____ to us deep in our hearts and ____ ___ that we are God’s _______.

Romans 8:17
And since we are his _____, we will share his ______ — for everything God gives to his Son, Christ, is ____, too. But if we are to share his _____, we must also share his _______.

Romans 8:18
Yet what we ______ now is nothing compared to the _____ he will give us _____.

Romans 8:19
For all ______ is waiting _____ for that future day when God will _____ who his ______ really are.

Romans 8:20
Against its ____, everything on ____ was _______ to God’s ______.

Romans 8:21
All creation ________ the day when it will join ____ _______ in glorious freedom from _____ and ______.

Romans 8:22
For we know that all ______ has been _______ as in the pains of _______ right up to the _______ ______.

Romans 8:23
And even we _______, although we have the ____ ______ within us as a ______ of future glory, also groan to be ______ from pain and suffering. We, too, wait _______ for that day when God will give us our ____ _______ as his children, including the new _____ he has promised us.

Romans 8:24
Now that we are _____, we eagerly look forward to this ______. For if you already ______ ________, you don’t need to _____ for it.

Romans 8:25
But if we look _______ to something we don’t have yet, we must _____ ________ and confidently.

Romans 8:26
And the ______ _______ helps us in our ______. For we don’t even know what we _______ _______ ____, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit _____ for us with ________ that cannot be expressed in ______.

Romans 8:27
And the _____ who knows ____ _______ knows what the Spirit is _____, for the Spirit _____ for us _______ in harmony with ______ _______ ______.

Romans 8:28
And we know that ______ _______ ________ to work together for the _____ of those who _____ _____ and are called according to his ______ for them.

Romans 8:29
For God _____ _____ ______ in advance, and he _____ them to become like his _____, so that his Son would be the _______, with many ________ and _______.

Romans 8:30
And having _____ them, he ______ them to _____ to him. And he gave them ______ _______ with himself, and he _______ them his ______.

Romans 8:31
What can we say about such ________ _______ as these? If ____ is _____ _____, who can ever be ______ ______?

Romans 8:32
Since God did not ____ even his own ____ but gave him up for us all, won’t God, who gave us ______, also give us ________ ________?

Romans 8:33
Who dares _____ us whom _____ has _____ for his own? Will God? No! He is the one who has given us ______ ________ with himself.

Romans 8:34
Who then will ______ ____? Will ______ _______? No, for he is the one who ____ for us and was ______ to life for us and is _____ at the place of highest honor next to _____, _______ for us.

Romans 8:35
Can anything ever _______ us from _______ _______? Does it mean he no longer _____ us if we have _______ or ________, or are persecuted, or are _______ or cold or in danger or _______ with _______?

Romans 8:36
(Even the _________ say, “For ______ ______ we are ______ every day; we are being ________ like ______.”)

Romans 8:37
No, despite all these things, __________ __________ is ours through _______, who loved us.

Romans 8:38
And I am _______ that _______ can ever ________ us from his love. ______ can’t, and life can’t. The ______ can’t, and the demons can’t. Our ______ for today, our ______ about tomorrow, and even the _______ ___ _______ can’t keep God’s love away.

Romans 8:39
Whether we are high _______ _____ _______ or in the deepest _______, nothing in all ________ will ever be able to ________ _____ form the ______ ___ _______ that is ________ ___ _______ Jesus our Lord.