Romans 8:11–23

¹¹And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ Jesus^b from the dead will also make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you.

¹²So then, brothers, we are obligated not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴For all those who are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. ¹⁵For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, “Abba!^c Father!” ¹⁶The Spirit himself confirms to our spirit that we are children of God, ¹⁷and if children, also heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer together with him so that we may also be glorified together with him.

The Glory that is to be Revealed

¹⁸For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us. ¹⁹For the eagerly expecting creation awaits eagerly the revelation of the sons of God. ²⁰For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected it, in hope ²¹that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God. ²²For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers agony together until now. ²³Not only this, but we ourselves also, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves while we^* await eagerly our adoption, the redemption of our body.