Romans 8

The TorahRooted Bible (TRB), translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek.

Life in the Spirit

¹ There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in the Messiah Yeshua, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ² For the law of the Spirit of life in the Messiah Yeshua has set me free from the law of sin and death. ³ For what the Torah could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, Elohim did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ so that the righteous requirement of the Torah might be fulfilled in us, who do not 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 set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, ⁷ because the mind set on the flesh is enmity against Elohim, for it is not subject to the Torah of Elohim, nor indeed can it be. ⁸ And those who are in the flesh cannot please Elohim. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of Elohim dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of the Messiah, he is not His. ¹⁰ And if the Messiah is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised Yeshua from the dead dwells in you, He who raised the Messiah from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you.

Children of Elohim

¹² So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh you will 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 Elohim, these are sons of Elohim. ¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of slavery again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of Elohim, ¹⁷ and if children, then heirs: heirs of Elohim and joint heirs with the Messiah, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

The glory to be revealed

¹⁸ For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of Elohim. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope; ²¹ because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of Elohim. ²² For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. ²³ And not only they, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. ²⁴ For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. ²⁶ Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. ²⁷ Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to Elohim. ²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love Elohim, to those who are the 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. ³⁰ Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

Nothing can separate us from the love of Elohim

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If Elohim is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? ³³ Who shall bring a charge against Elohim's elect? It is Elohim who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? It is the Messiah who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of Elohim, who also makes intercession for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of the Messiah? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter." ³⁷ Yet 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 powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of Elohim which is in the Messiah Yeshua our Lord.

Notes

• 8:1 The words "who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit" are in the Majority Text, which the TRB follows; many modern Bibles, following other manuscripts, end the verse after "in the Messiah Yeshua," and some manuscripts have only the first half of the phrase. All manuscripts have the same words in verse 4, where Paul describes those in whom the righteous requirement of the Torah is fulfilled.
• 8:4 What the Torah "could not do" was not a fault in the Torah but the weakness of the flesh (verse 3; compare 7:12-14). "For sin" (peri hamartias) is the phrase the ancient Greek translation often uses for the sin offering, so many translate "as an offering for sin." The goal is that "the righteous requirement of the Torah might be fulfilled in us," which many read in the light of the prophets' promise: "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them" (Ezekiel 36:27; compare Jeremiah 31:33). Others understand it as fulfilled for us by the Messiah; Paul's words "who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit" describe the life in which it is fulfilled.
• 8:15 Abba is the Aramaic word for "father," the word Yeshua used in Gethsemane, "Abba, Father" (Mark 14:36). "Adoption" (huiothesia) was a legal term in the Greek and Roman world for taking someone as a son with full rights of an heir (verse 17). Paul names "the adoption" first among the privileges of Israel (9:4), the people of whom Yahweh said, "Israel is My son, My firstborn" (Exodus 4:22).
• 8:21 The creation was subjected to futility when the ground was cursed after Adam's sin, "cursed is the ground because of you" (Genesis 3:17). "Futility" (mataiotēs) is the word the ancient Greek translation uses in Ecclesiastes for hevel, "Vanity of vanities" (Ecclesiastes 1:2). Paul's hope for the creation itself, to be delivered, matches the prophets' promise, "For see, I create new heavens and a new earth" (Isaiah 65:17).
• 8:23 "Firstfruits" (aparchē) is the word for the first part of the harvest given to Elohim as a pledge of the rest, "a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest" (Leviticus 23:10). The Feast of Weeks, Shavuot, is called "the day of the firstfruits" (Numbers 28:26), and on that day the Spirit was poured out (Acts 2:1-4). Paul calls the Spirit the firstfruits of what is still to come, "the redemption of our body" at the resurrection.
• 8:36 Paul quotes Psalm 44:22, where the Greek agrees with the Hebrew. It is a psalm of Israel suffering while still faithful: "All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant" (Psalm 44:17). Paul applies its words to the followers of the Messiah, and answers them with the love of Elohim from which nothing can separate them (verses 37-39).

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