V. Glorification
A. Heirs of Glory
A. Heirs of Glory
- For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
- For you have not received a spirit of slavery bringing you into fear again, but you have received a spirit of sonship in which we cry, Abba, Father!
- The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God.
- And if children, heirs also; on the one hand, heirs of God; on the other, joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him that we may also be glorified with Him.
- For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed upon us.
- For the anxious watching of the creation eagerly awaits the revelation of the sons of God.
- For the creation was made subject to vanity, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it,
- In hope that the creation itself will also be freed from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
- For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.
- And not only so, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan in ourselves, eagerly awaiting sonship, the redemption of our body.
- For we were saved in hope. But a hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?
- But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it through endurance.
- Moreover, in like manner the Spirit also joins in to help us in our weakness, for we do not know for what we should pray as is fitting, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
- But He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to God.
