"But when these thingsbeginto take place,straightenup and liftup your heads,becauseyour redemptionis drawing near."
And not onlythis, but alsowe ourselves,havingthe first fruitsof the Spirit,evenwe ourselvesgroanwithinourselves,waiting eagerlyfor [our] adoption as sons,the redemptionof our body.
Do not grievethe HolySpiritof God,by whomyou were sealedfor the dayof redemption.
For the anxious longingof the creationwaits eagerlyfor the revealingof the sonsof God.
now,will not Godbring aboutjusticefor His electwho cryto Him dayand night,and will He delay longoverthem?
whois given as a pledgeof our inheritance,with a viewto the redemptionof [God's own] possession,to the praiseof His glory.
And there was a womanwho for eighteenyearshad hada sicknesscaused by a spirit;and she was bent double,and couldnot straightenup at all.
ThenHe toldthem a parable:"Beholdthe fig treeand allthe trees;
