isv Romans:8:18-27 SEEK
Seeker Overlay ON
*
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us .
*
For the creation is eagerly waiting for God to reveal his children ,
*
because the creation was subjected to frustration ,
though not by its own choice .
The one who subjected it did so in the hope
*
that the creation itself would also be set free from slavery to decay in order to share the glorious freedom of God '
s children .
*
For we know that all creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth right up to the present time .
*
However ,
not only creation groans ,
but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit also groan inwardly as we eagerly wait for our adoption ,
the redemption of our bodies .
*
For we were saved with this hope in mind .
Now hope that is seen is not really hope ,
for who hopes for what can be seen ?
*
But if we hope for what we do not see ,
we eagerly wait for it with patience .
*
In the same way ,
the Spirit also helps us in our weakness ,
for we do not know how to pray as we should .
But the Spirit himself intercedes with groans too deep for words ,
*
and the one who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit ,
for the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to God '
s will .