Romans 8:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

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  • Eph 1:14 : 14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.
  • Rom 7:24 : 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?
  • Rom 8:19 : 19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
  • Rom 8:25-26 : 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.
  • 2 Cor 5:2-5 : 2 For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven; 3 if so be that being clothed we will not be found naked. 4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.
  • Rom 8:15-16 : 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{Abba is a Chaldee word for father or daddy, often used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.}! Father!" 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
  • Luke 21:28 : 28 But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near."
  • 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 I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don't make known what I will choose. 23 But I am in a dilemma between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
  • Phil 3:20-21 : 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
  • Heb 9:28 : 28 so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
  • 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ--
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
  • Luke 20:36 : 36 For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
  • 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
  • Titus 2:13 : 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory 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 Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
  • Eph 5:9 : 9 for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
  • Rom 5:5 : 5 and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
  • 2 Cor 7:5 : 5 For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

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    8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

    9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

    10 If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

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

    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{Abba is a Chaldee word for father or daddy, often used affectionately and respectfully in prayer to our Father in heaven.}! 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.

  • Rom 8:24-27
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    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.

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    2 For most assuredly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

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

    4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

    5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

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

    6 And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, "Abba,{Abba is a Greek spelling for the Chaldee word for "Father" or "Daddy" used in a familiar, respectful, and loving way.} Father!"

  • Eph 1:14
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    14 who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

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

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

    5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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

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

    21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

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    22 who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

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

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    1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

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

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    2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

    3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

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    11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

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    29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}

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    2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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    5 This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

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    23 but 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.

    24 What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

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    3 among 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.

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    23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.

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    10 always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.

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    8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

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    5 having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

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

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