Romans 8:23

American Standard Version (1901)

And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for [our] adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body.

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  • Eph 1:14 : 14 which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of [God's] own possession, unto the praise of his glory.
  • Rom 7:24 : 24 Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
  • Rom 8:19 : 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.
  • Rom 8:25-26 : 25 But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it. 26 And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for [us] with groanings which cannot be uttered;
  • 2 Cor 5:2-5 : 2 For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven: 3 if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life. 5 Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:15-16 : 15 For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:
  • Luke 21:28 : 28 But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh.
  • Gal 5:5 : 5 For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
  • Phil 1:21-23 : 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if to live in the flesh,--[ if] this shall bring fruit from my work, then what I shall choose I know not. 23 But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ; for it is very far better:
  • Phil 3:20-21 : 20 For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, [that it may be] conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.
  • Heb 9:28 : 28 so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 that the proof of your faith, [being] more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.
  • Luke 20:36 : 36 for neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
  • 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also to all them that have loved his appearing.
  • Titus 2:13 : 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.
  • Eph 4:30 : 30 And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
  • Rom 5:5 : 5 and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Spirit which was given unto us.
  • 2 Cor 7:5 : 5 For even when we were come into Macedonia our flesh had no relief, but [we were] afflicted on every side; without [were] fightings, within [were] fears.

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  • Rom 8:8-22
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    8and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

    9But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

    10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

    12So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

    13for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

    14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

    15For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

    16The Spirit himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:

    17and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified with [him] .

    18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

    19For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.

    20For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope

    21that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

    22For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

  • Rom 8:24-27
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    24For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth?

    25But if we hope for that which we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for it.

    26And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for [us] with groanings which cannot be uttered;

    27and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.

  • 2 Cor 5:2-5
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    2For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:

    3if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.

    4For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

    5Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

  • Gal 4:5-6
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    5that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

    6And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

  • Eph 1:14
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    14which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of [God's] own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

  • Gal 5:5
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    5For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

  • Rom 8:4-5
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    4that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

    5For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

  • Phil 3:20-21
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    20For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

    21who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, [that it may be] conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

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    22who also sealed us, and gave [us] the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

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    18Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

  • Rom 5:2-3
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    2through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

    3And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;

  • Rom 5:11
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    11and not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

  • Rom 8:29
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    29For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

  • 1 John 3:2
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    2Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

  • 2 Cor 8:5
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    5and [this], not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

  • Rom 7:23-24
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    23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

    24Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

  • Eph 2:3
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    3among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--

  • 1 Cor 15:23
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    23But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then they that are Christ's, at his coming.

  • 2 Cor 4:10
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    10always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.

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    8For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

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    5having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12So then death worketh in us, but life in you.