Romans 8:10-23
Read Romans 8 in full →10aBut if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is 1alive because of righteousness. 11But if the Spirit of Him who araised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, bHe who raised cChrist Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies 1through His Spirit who dwells in you.
12So then, brothers, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— 13for aif you are living according to the flesh, you 1must die, but if by the Spirit you are bputting to death the cpractices of the body, you will live. 14For as many as are abeing led by the Spirit of God, these are bsons of God. 15For you ahave not received a spirit of slavery 1leading to fear again, but you bhave received the Spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry out, “cAbba! Father!” 16The Spirit Himself atestifies with our spirit that we are bchildren of God, 17and if children, also aheirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, bif indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.
Present Suffering and Future Glory
18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time aare not worthy to be compared with the bglory that is to be revealed to us. 19For the aanxious longing of the creation eagerly waits for bthe revealing of the csons of God. 20For the creation awas subjected to bfutility, not willingly, but cbecause of Him who subjected it, in hope 211that athe creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22For we know that the whole creation agroans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. 23aAnd not only this, but also we ourselves, having bthe first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves cgroan within ourselves, deagerly waiting for our adoption as sons, ethe redemption of our body.
