Romans 8:23

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Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

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  • Eph 1:14 : 14 who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
  • Rom 7:24 : 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
  • Rom 8:19 : 19 For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.
  • Rom 8:25-26 : 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance. 26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.
  • 2 Cor 5:2-5 : 2 For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3 if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked. 4 For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.
  • Rom 8:15-16 : 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.
  • Luke 21:28 : 28 But when these things begin to happen, stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
  • Gal 5:5 : 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.
  • Phil 1:21-23 : 21 For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain. 22 Now if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean productive work for me, yet I don’t know which I prefer: 23 I feel torn between the two, because I have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far,
  • Phil 3:20-21 : 20 But our citizenship is in heaven– and we also eagerly await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.
  • Heb 9:28 : 28 so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.
  • Luke 20:36 : 36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, since they are sons of the resurrection.
  • 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 Finally the crown of righteousness is reserved for me. The Lord, the righteous Judge, will award it to me in that day– and not to me only, but also to all who have set their affection on his appearing.
  • Titus 2:13 : 13 as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
  • Gal 5:22-23 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
  • Eph 4:30 : 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth–
  • Rom 5:5 : 5 And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
  • 2 Cor 7:5 : 5 For even when we came into Macedonia, our body had no rest at all, but we were troubled in every way– struggles from the outside, fears from within.

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  • Rom 8:8-22
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    8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

    9You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him.

    10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

    11Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

    12So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

    13(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

    14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God.

    15For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry,“Abba, Father.”

    16The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.

    17And if children, then heirs(namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)– if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

    18For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us.

    19For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

    20For the creation was subjected to futility– not willingly but because of God who subjected it– in hope

    21that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

    22For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

  • Rom 8:24-27
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    24For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

    25But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

    26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

    27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.

  • 2 Cor 5:2-5
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    2For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling,

    3if indeed, after we have put on our heavenly house, we will not be found naked.

    4For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

    5Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

  • Gal 4:5-6
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    5to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

    6And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls“Abba! Father!”

  • Eph 1:14
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    14who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

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

  • Rom 8:4-5
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    4so that the righteous requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

    5For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

  • Rom 7:5
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

  • Phil 3:20-21
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    20But our citizenship is in heaven– and we also eagerly await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

    21who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.

  • 2 Cor 1:22
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    22who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.

  • Jas 1:18
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    18By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1The Believer’s Relationship to the Holy Spirit There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

    2For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

  • Rom 5:2-3
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    2through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.

    3Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

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

  • Rom 8:29
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    29because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

  • 1 John 3:2
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    2Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

  • 2 Cor 8:5
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    5And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

  • Rom 7:23-24
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    23But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

    24Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

  • Eph 2:3
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    3among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and 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 when Christ comes, those who belong to him.

  • 2 Cor 4:10
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    10always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

  • Gal 6:8
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    8because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

  • Eph 1:5
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    5He did this by predestining us to adoption as his legal heirs through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will–

  • 2 Cor 4:12
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    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.