When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off?
who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.
He told them this parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the trees.