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That's why I don't think there's any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times.

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I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.

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For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

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Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will give us later.

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The created world itself can hardly wait for what's coming next.

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The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.

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For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.

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For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.

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Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in

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For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope

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For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope;

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Against its will, everything on earth was subjected to God's curse.

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until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens.

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that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

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because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

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All creation anticipates the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay.

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All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it's not only around us; it's within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We're also feeling the birth pangs.

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We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

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For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

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For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

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These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance.

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Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

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Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

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And even we Christians, although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, also groan to be released from pain and suffering. We, too, wait anxiously for that day when God will give us our full rights as his children, including the new bodies he has promised us.

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That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don't see what is enlarging us.

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For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has?

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For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?

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Now that we are saved, we eagerly look forward to this freedom. For if you already have something, you don't need to hope for it.

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But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.

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But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

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But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

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But if we look forward to something we don't have yet, we must wait patiently and confidently.

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Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans.

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In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.

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Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

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And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.

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He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God.

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And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.

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Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

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And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will.

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That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

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And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

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And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

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And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.

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God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him.

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For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

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For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn, with many brothers and sisters.

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After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.

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And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

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Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

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And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And he gave them right standing with himself, and he promised them his glory.

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So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose?

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What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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What can we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?

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If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us?

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He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

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He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

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Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?

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And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen?

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Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.

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Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.

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Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? Will God? No! He is the one who has given us right standing with himself.

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Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us--who was raised to life for us!-is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us.

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Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

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Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

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Who then will condemn us? Will Christ Jesus? No, for he is the one who died for us and was raised to life for us and is sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us.

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Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry or cold or in danger or threatened with death?

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They kill us in cold blood because they hate you. We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.

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As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

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As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

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(Even the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep." )

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None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us.

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No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

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No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

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I'm absolutely convinced that nothing--nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow,

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For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

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For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,

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And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can't, and life can't. The angels can't, and the demons can't. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away.

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high or low, thinkable or unthinkable--absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.

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neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.