Romans 8:18-39.
Romans 8:18-39 (Good News Translation)
The Future Glory
18 I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be
compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to
us.19All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his
children.20 For creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its
own will, but because God willed it to be so. Yet there was the
hope21that creation itself would one day be set free from its slavery
to decay and would share the glorious freedom of the children of
God.22For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans
with pain, like the pain of childbirth.23 But it is not just creation
alone which groans; we who have the Spirit as the first of God's gifts
also groan within ourselves as we wait for God to make us his children
and set our whole being free.24For it was by hope that we were saved;
but if we see what we hope for, then it is not really hope. For who of
us hopes for something we see?25But if we hope for what we do not see,
we wait for it with patience. 26In the same way the Spirit also comes
to help us, weak as we are. For we do not know how we ought to pray;
the Spirit himself pleads with God for us in groans that words cannot
express.27And God, who sees into our hearts, knows what the thought of
the Spirit is; because the Spirit pleads with God on behalf of his
people and in accordance with his will. 28We know that in all things
God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called
according to his purpose.29Those whom God had already chosen he also
set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the first
among many believers.30And so those whom God set apart, he called; and
those he called, he put right with himself, and he shared his glory
with them.
God's Love in Christ Jesus
31In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be
against us?32Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own
Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son—will he not also
freely give us all things?33Who will accuse God's chosen people? God
himself declares them not guilty!34Who, then, will condemn them? Not
Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised to life and is at
the right side of God, pleading with him for us!35Who, then, can
separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or
persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death?36 As the
scripture says, "For your sake we are in danger of death at all times;
we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered." 37No, in
all these things we have complete victory through him who loved
us!38For I am certain that nothing can separate us from his love:
neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers or
powers, neither the present nor the future,39neither the world above
nor the world below—there is nothing in all creation that will ever be
able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ
Jesus our Lord."
Jesus is the way. Invite Him into your heart.
The Future Glory
18 I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be
compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to
us.19All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his
children.20 For creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its
own will, but because God willed it to be so. Yet there was the
hope21that creation itself would one day be set free from its slavery
to decay and would share the glorious freedom of the children of
God.22For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans
with pain, like the pain of childbirth.23 But it is not just creation
alone which groans; we who have the Spirit as the first of God's gifts
also groan within ourselves as we wait for God to make us his children
and set our whole being free.24For it was by hope that we were saved;
but if we see what we hope for, then it is not really hope. For who of
us hopes for something we see?25But if we hope for what we do not see,
we wait for it with patience. 26In the same way the Spirit also comes
to help us, weak as we are. For we do not know how we ought to pray;
the Spirit himself pleads with God for us in groans that words cannot
express.27And God, who sees into our hearts, knows what the thought of
the Spirit is; because the Spirit pleads with God on behalf of his
people and in accordance with his will. 28We know that in all things
God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called
according to his purpose.29Those whom God had already chosen he also
set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the first
among many believers.30And so those whom God set apart, he called; and
those he called, he put right with himself, and he shared his glory
with them.
God's Love in Christ Jesus
31In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be
against us?32Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own
Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son—will he not also
freely give us all things?33Who will accuse God's chosen people? God
himself declares them not guilty!34Who, then, will condemn them? Not
Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised to life and is at
the right side of God, pleading with him for us!35Who, then, can
separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or
persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death?36 As the
scripture says, "For your sake we are in danger of death at all times;
we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered." 37No, in
all these things we have complete victory through him who loved
us!38For I am certain that nothing can separate us from his love:
neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers or
powers, neither the present nor the future,39neither the world above
nor the world below—there is nothing in all creation that will ever be
able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ
Jesus our Lord."
Jesus is the way. Invite Him into your heart.
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