“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.“

“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.”

“And if children, then heirs – heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.”

“The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.”

“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,

but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons,

by whom we cry, ‘Abba! Father!'”

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.”

“Therefore, brethren, we are debtors – not to the flesh,

to live according to the flesh.

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.”

“If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you,

He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies

through His Spirit who dwells in you.”

“But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin,

the Spirit is life because of righteousness.“

“But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit,

if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.

Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.”

“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God;

for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.

So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”

“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. For to be carnally minded is death,

but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

“That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”

“Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ,

so that you may belong to another, to Him who has been raised from the dead,

in order that we may bear fruit for God.”

(27 May – 10 June 2012)

This verse is a continuation of the preceding three verses. It emphasizes that we have died to the requirements of the law through the body of Christ, through our being in Christ. Through baptism we have become His Mystical Body. But through baptism we were also grafted upon the new life of the risen Christ.

“Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress

if she lives with another man while her husband is alive.

But if her husband dies, she is free from that law,

and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.”

(13 – 27 May 2012)

“Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law),

that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?

For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives.

But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.”

(29 Apr – 13 May 2012)