Jeremiah 22:13-23

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¹³^(A)“Woe to him who builds his house by ^(B)unrighteousness,
    and his upper rooms by injustice,
^(C)who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
    and does not give him his wages,
¹⁴who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
    with spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
    paneling it with cedar
    and ^(D)painting it with vermilion.
¹⁵Do you think you are a king
    because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
    and ^(E)do justice and righteousness?
    ^(F)Then it was well with him.
¹⁶^(G)He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
    ^(H)then it was well.
Is not this ^(I)to know me?
    declares the Lord.
¹⁷But you have eyes and heart
    only for your dishonest gain,
^(J)for shedding innocent blood,
    and for practicing oppression and violence.”

¹⁸Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

^(K)“They shall not lament for him, saying,
    ^(L)‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
    ^(M)‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
¹⁹With the burial of a donkey ^(N)he shall be buried,
    dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

²⁰“Go up to Lebanon, and cry out,
    and lift up your voice in Bashan;
cry out from ^(O)Abarim,
    for all ^(P)your lovers are destroyed.
²¹I spoke to you in your prosperity,
    but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
^(Q)This has been your way from ^(R)your youth,
    that you have not obeyed my voice.
²²^(S)The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds,
    and ^(T)your lovers shall go into captivity;
^(U)then you will be ashamed and confounded
    because of all your evil.
²³O inhabitant of ^(V)Lebanon,
    nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
    ^(W)pain as of a woman in labor!”

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Romans 8:12-27

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Heirs with Christ

¹²So then, brothers,^[a] we are debtors, ^(A)not 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 ^(B)put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴For all who are ^(C)led by the Spirit of God are ^(D)sons^[b] of God. ¹⁵For ^(E)you did not receive ^(F)the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of ^(G)adoption as sons, by whom we cry, ^(H)“Abba! Father!” ¹⁶^(I)The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, ¹⁷and if children, then ^(J)heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, ^(K)provided 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 ^(L)are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. ¹⁹For the creation waits with eager longing for ^(M)the revealing of the sons of God. ²⁰For the creation ^(N)was subjected to futility, not willingly, but ^(O)because of him who subjected it, in hope ²¹that ^(P)the 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 ^(Q)the whole creation ^(R)has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. ²³And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have ^(S)the firstfruits of the Spirit, ^(T)groan inwardly as ^(U)we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, ^(V)the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴For ^(W)in this hope we were saved. Now ^(X)hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? ²⁵But if we hope for what we do not see, we ^(Y)wait for it with patience.

²⁶Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For ^(Z)we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but ^(AA)the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. ²⁷And ^(AB)he who searches hearts knows what is ^(AC)the mind of the Spirit, because^[c] the Spirit ^(AD)intercedes for the saints ^(AE)according to the will of God.