But when these things begin to happen, look up and raise your heads, for your release is not far distant."
and not only so, but even we ourselves, who have the Spirit as a foretaste of the future, even we sigh to ourselves as we wait for the redemption of the body that means our full sonship.
And do not vex God's holy Spirit, by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.
Even the creation waits with eager longing for the sons of God to be revealed.
And will not God see justice done to his elect who cry to him by day and night? Will he be tolerant to their opponents?
which is the pledge and instalment of our common heritage, that we may obtain our divine possession and so redound to the praise of his glory.
there was a woman who for eighteen years had suffered weakness from an evil spirit; indeed she was bent double and quite unable to raise herself.
And he told them a parable. "Look at the fig tree and indeed all the trees;