₁₂So then, my brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but it is not to live as our human nature wants us to. ₁₃For if you live according to your human nature, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death your sinful actions, you will live. ₁₄Those who are led by God's Spirit are God's children. ₁₅For the Spirit that God has given you does not make you slaves and cause you to be afraid; instead, the Spirit makes you God's children, and by the Spirit's power we cry out to God, “Father! my Father!” ₁₆God's Spirit joins himself to our spirits to declare that we are God's children. ₁₇Since we are his children, we will possess the blessings he keeps for his people, and we will also possess with Christ what God has kept for him; for if we share Christ's suffering, we will also share his glory.