And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

Expectation

"For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.

whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

The manifestation

"They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

General references

I wait for your salvation, O LORD.