Papyrus
27
Date:
Early Third Century A.D.
Discovered:
Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Location:
Cambridge, England; Cambridge University Library
Contents:
Romans 8:12-22, 24-27, 33-9:3, 5-9
Note:
This manuscript appears to have been written by the same scribe who wrote
Papyrus 20.
Romans
8
12 So
then, brothers, we are debtors, not
to the flesh,
to live after the flesh. 13 For if you live after the flesh, you
must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body,
you will live. 14 For as many as are
led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. 15 For
you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received
the Spirit of adoption, by whom we
cry, “Abba! Father!”
16 The
Spirit himself testifies with
our spirit that we are children
of God; 17 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 with
him.
18 For
I consider that the
sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed
toward us. 19 For the creation waits with eager
expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the
creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him
who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will
be delivered from the bondage of
decay into the liberty of the glory
of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
[..]
24 For
we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for
that which he sees? 25 But
if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
26 In
the same way, the Spirit also
helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit
himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. 27 He
who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints
according to God.
[..]
33 Who
could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes
rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God,
who also makes intercession for us.
35 Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it
is written,
“For your
sake we are killed all day long.
We
were accounted as sheep for the
slaughter.”
37 No,
in all these things, we are
more than conquerors through
him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor
height, nor depth, nor any
other created thing will be able to separate us
from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans
9
I tell the truth in
Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me
in the Holy Spirit 2 that I
have great sorrow and unceasing pain
in my heart. 3 For I
could wish that I myself were
accursed from Christ
for my brothers’ sake, my relatives
according to the flesh
[..]
5 of
whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is
over all, God, blessed forever.
Amen.
6 But
it is not
as though the word of God has come to nothing. For
they are not all Israel that are of Israel. 7 Neither, because
they are Abraham’s offspring,
are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.” 8 That
is, it is not the children of the flesh who
are children of God, but the children of the promise
are counted as heirs. 9 For this is a word of
promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
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