17 [a]If we be children, we are also [b]heirs, even the heirs of God, and heirs annexed with Christ: [c]if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:17 A proof of the consequent of the confirmation: because that he which is the Son of God, doth enjoy God with Christ.
  2. Romans 8:17 Partakers of our father’s goods, and that freely, because we are children by adoption.
  3. Romans 8:17 Now Paul teacheth by what way the sons of God do come to that felicity, to wit, by the cross, as Christ himself did: and therewithall openeth unto them fountains of comfort: as first, that we have Christ a companion and fellow of our afflictions: secondly, that we shall be also his followers in that everlasting glory.

17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs(A)—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings(B) in order that we may also share in his glory.(C)

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