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# Romans 8

Romans 8 is chapter 8 of 16 in the Letter to the Romans. Here are all 39 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> There is no condemnation to them that, being justified by Christ, walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. Their strong hope and love of God.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Romans 8 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh.
2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and death.
3. For though this was impossible under the law, because it was weakened by the flesh, God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and because of sin, in order to condemn sin in the flesh,
4. so that the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us. For we are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.
5. For those who are in agreement with the flesh are mindful of the things of the flesh. But those who are in agreement with the spirit are mindful of the things of the spirit.
6. For the prudence of the flesh is death. But the prudence of the spirit is life and peace.
7. And the wisdom of the flesh is inimical to God. For it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be.
8. So those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
9. And you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if it is true that the Spirit of God lives within you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.
10. But if Christ is within you, then the body is indeed dead, concerning sin, but the spirit truly lives, because of justification.
11. But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead lives within you, then he who raised up Jesus Christ from the dead shall also enliven your mortal bodies, by means of his Spirit living within you.
12. Therefore, brothers, we are not debtors to the flesh, so as to live according to the flesh.
13. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if, by the Spirit, you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.
14. For all those who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.
15. And you have not received, again, a spirit of servitude in fear, but you have received the Spirit of the adoption of sons, in whom we cry out: “Abba, Father!”
16. For the Spirit himself renders testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God.
17. But if we are sons, then we are also heirs: certainly heirs of God, but also co-heirs with Christ, yet in such a way that, if we suffer with him, we shall also be glorified with him.
18. For I consider that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with that future glory which shall be revealed in us.
19. For the anticipation of the creature anticipates the revelation of the sons of God.
20. For the creature was made subject to emptiness, not willingly, but for the sake of the One who made it subject, unto hope.
21. For the creature itself shall also be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the sons of God.
22. For we know that every creature groans inwardly, as if giving birth, even until now;
23. and not only these, but also ourselves, since we hold the first-fruits of the Spirit. For we also groan within ourselves, anticipating our adoption as the sons of God, and the redemption of our body.
24. For we have been saved by hope. But a hope which is seen is not hope. For when a man sees something, why would he hope?
25. But since we hope for what we do not see, we wait with patience.
26. And similarly, the Spirit also helps our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself asks on our behalf with ineffable sighing.
27. And he who examines hearts knows what the Spirit seeks, because he asks on behalf of the saints in accordance with God.
28. And we know that, for those who love God, all things work together unto good, for those who, in accordance with his purpose, are called to be saints.
29. For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined, in conformity with the image of his Son, so that he might be the Firstborn among many brothers.
30. And those whom he predestined, he also called. And those whom he called, he also justified. And those whom he justified, he also glorified.
31. So, what should we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
32. He who did not spare even his own Son, but handed him over for the sake of us all, how could he not also, with him, have given us all things?
33. Who will make an accusation against the elect of God? God is the One who justifies;
34. who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus who has died, and who has indeed also risen again, is at the right hand of God, and even now he intercedes for us.
35. Then who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation? Or anguish? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or peril? Or persecution? Or the sword?
36. For it is as it has been written: “For your sake, we are being put to death all day long. We are being treated like sheep for the slaughter.”
37. But in all these things we overcome, because of him who has loved us.
38. For I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor the present things, nor the future things, nor strength,
39. nor the heights, nor the depths, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

## Romans 8 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Nihil ergo nunc damnationis est iis qui sunt in Christo Jesu: qui non secundum carnem ambulant.
2. Lex enim spiritus vitæ in Christo Jesu liberavit me a lege peccati et mortis.
3. Nam quod impossibile erat legi, in quo infirmabatur per carnem: Deus Filium suum mittens in similitudinem carnis peccati et de peccato, damnavit peccatum in carne,
4. ut justificatio legis impleretur in nobis, qui non secundum carnem ambulamus, sed secundum spiritum.
5. Qui enim secundum carnem sunt, quæ carnis sunt, sapiunt: qui vero secundum spiritum sunt, quæ sunt spiritus, sentiunt.
6. Nam prudentia carnis, mors est: prudentia autem spiritus, vita et pax:
7. quoniam sapientia carnis inimica est Deo: legi enim Dei non est subjecta, nec enim potest.
8. Qui autem in carne sunt, Deo placere non possunt.
9. Vos autem in carne non estis, sed in spiritu: si tamen Spiritus Dei habitat in vobis. Si quis autem Spiritum Christi non habet, hic non est ejus.
10. Si autem Christus in vobis est, corpus quidem mortuum est propter peccatum, spiritus vero vivit propter justificationem.
11. Quod si Spiritus ejus, qui suscitavit Jesum a mortuis, habitat in vobis: qui suscitavit Jesum Christum a mortuis, vivificabit et mortalia corpora vestra, propter inhabitantem Spiritum ejus in vobis.
12. Ergo fratres, debitores sumus non carni, ut secundum carnem vivamus.
13. Si enim secundum carnem vixeritis, moriemini: si autem spiritu facta carnis mortificaveritis, vivetis.
14. Quicumque enim Spiritu Dei aguntur, ii sunt filii Dei.
15. Non enim accepistis spiritum servitutis iterum in timore, sed accepistis spiritum adoptionis filiorum, in quo clamamus: Abba (Pater).
16. Ipse enim Spiritus testimonium reddit spiritui nostro quod sumus filii Dei.
17. Si autem filii, et hæredes: hæredes, quidem Dei, cohæredes autem Christi: si tamen compatimur ut et conglorificemur.
18. Existimo enim quod non sunt condignæ passiones hujus temporis ad futuram gloriam, quæ revelabitur in nobis.
19. Nam exspectatio creaturæ revelationem filiorum Dei exspectat.
20. Vanitati enim creatura subjecta est non volens, sed propter eum, qui subjecit eam in spe:
21. quia et ipsa creatura liberabitur a servitute corruptionis in libertatem gloriæ filiorum Dei.
22. Scimus enim quod omnis creatura ingemiscit, et parturit usque adhuc.
23. Non solum autem illa, sed et nos ipsi primitias spiritus habentes: et ipsi intra nos gemimus adoptionem filiorum Dei exspectantes, redemptionem corporis nostri.
24. Spe enim salvi facti sumus. Spes autem, quæ videtur, non est spes: nam quod videt quis, quid sperat?
25. Si autem quod non videmus, speramus: per patientiam exspectamus.
26. Similiter autem et Spiritus adjuvat infirmitatem nostram: nam quid oremus, sicut oportet, nescimus: sed ipse Spiritus postulat pro nobis gemitibus inenarrabilibus.
27. Qui autem scrutatur corda, scit quid desideret Spiritus: quia secundum Deum postulat pro sanctis.
28. Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti.
29. Nam quos præscivit, et prædestinavit conformes fieri imaginis Filii sui, ut sit ipse primogenitus in multis fratribus.
30. Quos autem prædestinavit, hos et vocavit: et quos vocavit, hos et justificavit: quos autem justificavit, illos et glorificavit.
31. Quid ergo dicemus ad hæc? si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?
32. Qui etiam proprio Filio suo non pepercit, sed pro nobis omnibus tradidit illum: quomodo non etiam cum illo omnia nobis donavit?
33. Quis accusabit adversus electos Dei? Deus qui justificat,
34. quis est qui condemnet? Christus Jesus, qui mortuus est, immo qui et resurrexit, qui est ad dexteram Dei, qui etiam interpellat pro nobis.
35. Quis ergo nos separabit a caritate Christi? tribulatio? an angustia? an fames? an nuditas? an periculum? an persecutio? an gladius?
36. (Sicut scriptum est: Quia propter te mortificamur tota die: æstimati sumus sicut oves occisionis.)
37. Sed in his omnibus superamus propter eum qui dilexit nos.
38. Certus sum enim quia neque mors, neque vita, neque angeli, neque principatus, neque virtutes, neque instantia, neque futura, neque fortitudo,
39. neque altitudo, neque profundum, neque creatura alia poterit nos separare a caritate Dei, quæ est in Christo Jesu Domino nostro.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 782: The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 602: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 693: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 632: Christ Descended Into Hell ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 695: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 989: "I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 990: "I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 259: The Father ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1831: The Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1996: Grace ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2543: The Desires of the Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1303: The Effects of Confirmation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2572: In the Old Testament ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2639: Prayer of Praise ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 793: The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1265: The Grace of Baptism ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1460: The Acts of the Penitent ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1499: The Anointing of the Sick ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 280: The Creator ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1721: Christian Beatitude ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 671: He Will Come Again in Glory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1046: Hope of the New Heaven and the New Earth ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 400: The Fall ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1741: Human Freedom in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2630: Prayer of Petition ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 735: The Spirit and the Church In the Last Days ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 741: The Spirit and the Church In the Last Days ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2559: Prayer in the Christian Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2634: Prayer of Intercession ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2736: Filial Trust ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2739: Filial Trust ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2766: The Lord's Prayer ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2736: Filial Trust ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 313: The Creator ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 395: The Fall ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2012: Christian Holiness ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1821: The Theological Virtues ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 501: "Conceived By the Power of the Holy Spirit and Born of the Virgin Mary" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2790: "Our" Father ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1161: How is the Liturgy Celebrated? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1272: The Grace of Baptism ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2852: "And Lead Us not into Temptation" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 603: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 706: God's Spirit and Word in the Time of the Promises ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2572: In the Old Testament ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1373: The Sacramental Sacrifice Thanksgiving, Memorial, Presence ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2634: Prayer of Intercession ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.” — St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, III.9, 1609 (On this theme: verse 1)
- “If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.” — St. Gemma Galgani, Letters to Fr. Germano, c. 1901 (On this theme: verse 17)
- “Hope has for its object only what is good, only what is future, and only what affects the one who hopes.” — St. Augustine of Hippo, Enchiridion, 8, c. 421 (On this theme: verse 24)
- “Everything is grace.” — St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul, ch. 10, 1897 (On this theme: verse 28)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 16: “The Spirit himself” … By the inward motions of divine love, and the peace of conscience, which the children of God experience, they have a kind of testimony of God's favour; by which they are much strengthened in their hope of their justification and salvation; but yet not so as to pretend to an absolute assurance: which is not usually granted in this mortal life: during which we are taught to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. Phil. 2. 12. And that he that thinketh himself to stand, must take heed lest he fall. 1 Cor. 10. 12. See also, Rom. 11. 20, 21, 22.
- Verse 19: He speaks of the corporeal creation, made for the use and service of man; and, by occasion of his sin, made subject to vanity, that is, to a perpetual instability, tending to corruption and other defects; so that by a figure of speech it is here said to groan and be in labour, and to long for its deliverance, which is then to come, when sin shall reign no more; and God shall raise the bodies and unite them to their souls never more to separate, and to be in everlasting happiness in heaven.
- Verse 26: The Spirit is said to ask, and desire for the saints, and to pray in us; inasmuch as he inspireth prayer, and teacheth us to pray.
- Verse 29: That is, God hath preordained that all his elect should be conformable to the image of his Son. We must not here offer to pry into the secrets of God's eternal election; only firmly believe that all our good, in time and eternity, flows originally from God's free goodness; and all our evil from man's free will.
- Verse 38: That is, I am persuaded; as it is in the Greek, pepeismai.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sun, Feb 21, 2027: Second Sunday of Lent — Second Reading, Romans 8:31b-34
- Sun, May 23, 2027: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity — Second Reading, Romans 8:14-17
- Thu, Jun 17, 2027 (computed): Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, Romans 8:15bc
- Wed, Oct 6, 2027 (computed): Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, Romans 8:15bc

7 more dates through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).