More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies.

for I eagerly and confidently hope that I shall never disgrace myself but that this time as always hitherto, living or dying, I shall do Christ credit by my unfailing courage.

Expectation

Yet he must remain in heaven till the time for the universal reformation of which God told in ancient times by the lips of his holy prophets.

If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

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

The manifestation

"When the Son of Man comes in his splendor, with all his angels with him, he will take his seat on his glorious throne,

Dear friends, we are God's children now; it has not yet been disclosed what we are to be. We know that if he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.