daily reading 13.5 (Romans 8:1–4)

5-days-a-week through Romans and the letters Paul wrote from Rome in 2024


Our opening prayer for today:

    ’Tis I who should be smitten,
    My doom should here be written;
    Bound hand and foot in hell.
    The fetters and the scourging,
    The floods around you surging,
    ’Tis I who have deserved them well.

    The load you bore so surely,
    That pressed so sorely on me,
    It crushed me to the ground.
    The cross for me enduring,
    The crown for me securing,
    My healing in your wounds is found.

    Your groaning and your sighing,
    Your bitter tears and dying,
    With which you were oppressed—
    They shall, when life is ending,
    Be guiding and attending
    My way to your eternal rest. Amen.

  

Romans 8:1–4

  • Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus, 2 because the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
  • 3 What the law could not do since it was weakened by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh as a sin offering, 4 in order that the law's requirement would be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Helpful notes on Romans 8:1–4



For yourself pray:

  • That God sets you free in your heart from sin and death

For others pray:

  • That God brings Jewish unbelievers around the world to start trusting in his Son

A psalm to listen to and ponder, as time allows:

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