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Romans 8:1-17

Romans 8:1-17 TOJB2011

Therefore, now there is no gezar din (verdict) of ashem (guilty), no harsha'ah (condemnation as guilty) for those in Moshiach Yehoshua. For the Torah of the Ruach HaKodesh that gives Chayyim in Moshiach Yehoshua has set me free from the “Gezetz” of Chet and Mavet. For what the Gezetz was unable to do in that it was weak through the basar, G-d sent his own Zun fun der Oybershter in the very demut (likeness) of the basar of sinful humanity and as a chattat (sin offering, sin atoning sacrifice), and both pronounced and effected a sentence of death on HaChet baBasar (Sin in the Flesh, in the fallen old humanity), In order that the maleh chukat haTorah (the full statute requirement of the Torah) might be fulfilled in us whose halakhah is in the Derech [HaChayyim] (the Way [of Life]) according to the Ruach Hakodesh and not in accordance with the basar. For those who exist in terms of the basar take the side of the basar, whereas those who exist in terms of the Ruach take the side of the Ruach Hakodesh. For the way of thinking of the basar is mavet (death), whereas the way of thinking of the Ruach Hakodesh is Chayyim and Shalom. Because the way of thinking of the basar is hostility, eyvah (enmity) toward G-d, for it does not submit itself to the Gezetz of G-d; for it cannot. And those who are in the basar are not able to please HASHEM. However, you are not in the basar but in the Ruach Hakodesh, assuming that the Ruach Hakodesh of HASHEM does indeed dwell in you — if anyone does not have the Ruach HaMoshiach, that person does not belong to Moshiach. And if Moshiach is in you, the body (of the basar) is dead because of sin but the Ruach is life for you because of Tzedek (righteousness). But if the Ruach Hakodesh of Him who gave Yehoshua Techiyah (Resurrection) from the Mesim dwells in you, He who raised Moshiach from the Mesim will give Chayyim to your mortal bodies as well, through His indwelling Ruach Hakodesh in you. So then, Achim b'Moshiach, we are under no obligation to the basar to live in accordance with the basar. For if you live in accordance with the basar you will certainly die; but if by the Ruach Hakodesh you put to death the [shameful] acts of the body, you will live. For as many as are led by the Ruach HaElohim, they are bnei HaElohim. For you did not receive a spirit of avdut, falling back into pachad (fear); but you received the Ruach of Mishpat HaBanim (Adoption), having Ma'amad HaBanim (the standing as Sons), by which we cry, “Abba, Avinu!” The Ruach Hakodesh himself bears eidus (witness) with our ruach that we are bnei HaElohim. And if bnei HaElohim, then also yoreshim (heirs) of G-d and co-heirs together with Moshiach, provided that we suffer with him in order that we might also be set in kavod (glory, eschatological glorification) with him.

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