Romans 8:18-25

Jubilee Bible 2000

¹⁸ For I know with certainty that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory which shall be manifested in us.

¹⁹ For the earnest hope of the creatures waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.

²⁰ For the creatures were subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected them,

²¹ with the hope that the same creatures shall be delivered from the slavery of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

²² For we now know that all the creatures groan together and travail in pain together until now.

²³ And not only they, but ourselves also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is to say, the redemption of our body.

²⁴ For in hope we are saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for what a man sees, he does not wait for.

²⁵ But if we wait for that which we do not see, with patience we wait for it.