Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
We groan with deep internal desire for deliverance, having tasted the Spirit's first influences in conversion but not yet admitted to the full privileges of adoption; that manifestation awaits the day of judgment when our bodies shall be redeemed from corruption.
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Though we already have the Spirit as firstfruits, moulding our hearts to heaven, we groan under the body of sin and death's vanity; we wait for adoption's manifestation, not escape from the body but the body's redemption from the grave.
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Creation itself hungers for our future glory, how much more ought we who have tasted the Spirit's beginnings to strain toward that inheritance with firm hope and burning desire, lifting our minds above present misery by considering not what we are now but what we shall be.
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