Romans 8:23

New Century Version

Not only the world, but we also have been waiting with pain inside us. We have the Spirit as the first part of God’s promise. So we are waiting for God to finish making us his own children, which means our bodies will be made free.

Cross References

Hebrews 9:28

so Christ was offered as a sacrifice one time to take away the sins of many people. And he will come a second time, not to offer himself for sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

Ephesians 1:14

That Holy Spirit is the guarantee that we will receive what God promised for his people until God gives full freedom to those who are his—to bring praise to God’s glory.

Ephesians 4:30

And do not make the Holy Spirit sad. The Spirit is God’s proof that you belong to him. God gave you the Spirit to show that God will make you free when the final day comes.

Titus 2:13

We should live like that while we wait for our great hope and the coming of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.

Galatians 5:5

But we have the true hope that comes from being made right with God, and by the Spirit we wait eagerly for this hope.

Romans 7:24

What a miserable man I am! Who will save me from this body that brings me death?

Romans 8:19

Everything God made is waiting with excitement for God to show his children’s glory completely.

Luke 20:36

In that life they are like angels and cannot die. They are children of God, because they have been raised from the dead.

1 John 3:2

Dear friends, now we are children of God, and we have not yet been shown what we will be in the future. But we know that when Christ comes again, we will be like him, because we will see him as he really is.

Luke 21:28

When these things begin to happen, look up and hold your heads high, because the time when God will free you is near!”

1 Peter 1:7

These troubles come to prove that your faith is pure. This purity of faith is worth more than gold, which can be proved to be pure by fire but will ruin. But the purity of your faith will bring you praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is shown to you.

2 Timothy 4:8

Now, a crown is being held for me—a crown for being right with God. The Lord, the judge who judges rightly, will give the crown to me on that day—not only to me but to all those who have waited with love for him to come again.

Romans 5:5

And this hope will never disappoint us, because God has poured out his love to fill our hearts. He gave us his love through the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to us.

Ephesians 5:9

Light brings every kind of goodness, right living, and truth.

2 Corinthians 7:5

When we came into Macedonia, we had no rest. We found trouble all around us. We had fighting on the outside and fear on the inside.

2 Chronicles 31:5

As soon as the king’s command went out to the Israelites, they gave freely of the first portion of their grain, new wine, oil, honey, and everything they grew in their fields. They brought a large amount, one-tenth of everything.

Romans 5:3

We also have joy with our troubles, because we know that these troubles produce patience.

Romans 5:11

And not only that, but now we are also very happy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we are now God’s friends again.

1 Corinthians 1:7

so you have every gift from God while you wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to come again.

2 Corinthians 1:22

He put his mark on us to show that we are his, and he put his Spirit in our hearts to be a guarantee for all he has promised.