Romans 8:9

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

But you are not ruled by your sinful selves. You are ruled by the Spirit, if that Spirit of God really lives in you. But whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ.

Cross References

Galatians 4:6

Since you are now God’s children, he has sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts. The Spirit cries out, “Abba, Father.”

1 Corinthians 3:16

You should know that you yourselves are God’s temple. God’s Spirit lives in you.

2 Timothy 1:14

This teaching is a treasure that you have been trusted with. Protect it with the help of the Holy Spirit, who lives inside us.

1 Corinthians 6:19

You should know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit that you received from God and that lives in you. You don’t own yourselves.

Romans 8:11

God raised Jesus from death. And if God’s Spirit lives in you, he will also give life to your bodies that die. Yes, God is the one who raised Christ from death, and he will raise you to life through his Spirit living in you.

John 14:17

The Helper is the Spirit of truth. The people of the world cannot accept him, because they don’t see him or know him. But you know him. He lives with you, and he will be in you.

Ephesians 1:13

It is the same with you. You heard the true message, the Good News about the way God saves you. When you heard that Good News, you believed in Christ. And in Christ, God put his special mark on you by giving you the Holy Spirit that he promised.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their sinful self. They have given up their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do.

Ephesians 2:22

And in Christ you are being built together with his other people. You are being made into a place where God lives through the Spirit.

Romans 8:2

That is because in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit that brings life made you free. It made you free from the law that brings sin and death.

John 3:6

The only life people get from their human parents is physical. But the new life that the Spirit gives a person is spiritual.

Philippians 1:19

because I know that your prayers and the help the Spirit of Jesus Christ gives me will cause this trouble to result in my freedom.

1 John 4:13

We know that we live in God and God lives in us. We know this because he gave us his Spirit.

Ezekiel 11:19

I will bring them together and make them like one person. I will put a new spirit in them. I will take away that heart of stone, and I will put a real heart in its place.

Luke 11:13

Even you who are bad know how to give good things to your children. So surely your heavenly Father knows how to give the Holy Spirit to the people who ask him.”

1 John 4:4

My dear children, you belong to God, so you have already defeated these false prophets. That’s because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 Corinthians 15:23

But everyone will be raised to life in the right order. Christ was first to be raised. Then, when Christ comes again, those who belong to him will be raised to life.

1 John 3:24

All who obey God’s commands live in God. And God lives in them. How do we know that God lives in us? We know because of the Spirit he gave us.

2 Corinthians 6:16

God’s temple cannot have anything to do with idols, and we are the temple of the living God. As God said, “I will live with them and walk with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Leviticus 26:11-12

John 3:34

God sent him, and he tells people what God says. God gives him the Spirit fully.

1 Peter 1:11

The Spirit of Christ was in those prophets. And the Spirit was telling about the sufferings that would happen to Christ and about the glory that would come after those sufferings. The prophets tried to learn about what the Spirit was showing them—when it would happen and what the world would be like at that time.

Revelation 20:15

And anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 13:8

Everyone living on earth would worship the beast. These are all the people since the beginning of the world whose names are not written in the Lamb’s book of life. The Lamb is the one who was killed.

2 Corinthians 10:7

You must look at the facts before you. If you feel sure you belong to Christ, you must remember that we belong to Christ the same as you do.

John 14:23

Jesus answered, “All who love me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them. My Father and I will come to them and live with them.

Acts 16:7

When they reached the border of Mysia, they tried to go on into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not let them go there.

Romans 7:5

In the past we were ruled by our sinful selves. The law made us want to do sinful things. And those sinful desires controlled our bodies, so that what we did only brought us spiritual death.

Romans 8:1

So now anyone who is in Christ Jesus is not judged guilty.

1 Corinthians 6:17

But anyone who is joined with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

Ephesians 3:17

I pray that Christ will live in your hearts because of your faith. I pray that your life will be strong in love and be built on love.