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For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God (8:19) For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected [the same] in hope, (8:20) Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God (8:21) For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now (8:22) And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, [to wit], the redemption of our body (8:23) For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? (8:24) But if we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for [it] (8:25) Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered (8:26) And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God (8:27) And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose (8:28) For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren (8:29) Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified (8:30) What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us? (8:31) He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (8:32) Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? [It is] God that justifieth (8:33) Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us (8:34) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (8:35) As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter (8:36) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us (8:37) For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, (8:38) Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord
(8:39)
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