Romans 8:12-25
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So then, brothers, we are debtors, c not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
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For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you d put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
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For all who are e led by the Spirit of God are f sons of God.
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For g you did not receive h the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of i adoption as sons, by whom we cry, j "Abba! Father!"
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k The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
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and if children, then l heirs - heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, m provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
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For I consider that the sufferings of this present time n are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
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For the creation waits with eager longing for o the revealing of the sons of God.
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For the creation p was subjected to futility, not willingly, but q because of him who subjected it, in hope
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that r the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
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For we know that s the whole creation t has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
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And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have u the firstfruits of the Spirit, v groan inwardly as w we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, x the redemption of our bodies.
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For y in this hope we were saved. Now z hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
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But if we hope for what we do not see, we a wait for it with patience.
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Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
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Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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Galatians 5:18
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
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Romans 8:16
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spiri...
Romans 8:19
For the creation waits with eager longing for t...
Romans 9:8
This means that it is not the children of the f...
Romans 9:26
"And in the very place where it was said to the...
Deuteronomy 14:1
You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shal...
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the children of Israel shall ...
John 1:12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in...
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1 Corinthians 2:12
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
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2 Timothy 1:7
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Galatians 2:4
Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in - who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery -
Hebrews 2:15
And deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
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Romans 8:23
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Galatians 4:5
To redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
Romans 9:4
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
Isaiah 56:5
I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
Jeremiah 31:9
With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
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Galatians 4:6
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!
Mark 14:36
And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.
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2 Corinthians 1:22
And who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
2 Corinthians 5:5
He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
Ephesians 1:13 - 14
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit.
1 John 3:24
Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
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Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Galatians 4:7
So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
Titus 3:7
So that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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2 Corinthians 1:7
Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us.
Acts 14:22
Strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
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2 Corinthians 4:17
For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.
1 Peter 1:5 - 6
Who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
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1 Peter 4:13
But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
1 Peter 5:1
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
Romans 2:7
To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
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Genesis 3:18 - 19
Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
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Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
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Acts 3:21
Whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
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Mark 16:15
And he said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
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Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the evil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because they said, "He will not see our latter end.
Jeremiah 12:11
They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.
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2 Corinthians 5:5
He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
James 1:18
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
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2 Corinthians 5:2
For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling.
2 Corinthians 5:4
For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened - not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
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Romans 8:19
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Isaiah 25:9
It will be said on that day, "Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord ; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Galatians 5:5
For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
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Romans 7:24
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Luke 21:28
Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.
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1 Thessalonians 1:3
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:8
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
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2 Corinthians 4:18
As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
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1 Thessalonians 1:3
Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 5:8
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
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