Heirs with Christ

¹²So then, brothers,5 we are debtors, cnot to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you dput to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴For all who are eled by the Spirit of God are fsons6 of God. ¹⁵For gyou did not receive hthe spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of iadoption as sons, by whom we cry, j“Abba! Father!” ¹⁶kThe Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, ¹⁷and if children, then lheirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, mprovided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Future Glory

¹⁸For I consider that the sufferings of this present time nare not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. ¹⁹For the creation waits with eager longing for othe revealing of the sons of God. ²⁰For the creation pwas subjected to futility, not willingly, but qbecause of him who subjected it, in hope ²¹that rthe creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. ²²For we know that sthe whole creation thas been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. ²³And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have uthe firstfruits of the Spirit, vgroan inwardly as wwe wait eagerly for adoption as sons, xthe redemption of our bodies. ²⁴For yin this hope we were saved. Now zhope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? ²⁵But if we hope for what we do not see, we await for it with patience.

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