Romans 8:18-30 - The Glory That Is To Be Revealed

¹⁸ For I consider what we suffer now not to be compared with the glory that is to burst upon us. ¹⁹ For creation is waiting with eager longing for the sons of God to be disclosed. ²⁰ For it was not the fault of creation that it was frustrated; it was by the will of him who condemned it to that, and in the hope ²¹ that creation itself would be set free from its bondage to decay, and have the glorious freedom of the children of God. ²² We know that all creation has been groaning in agony together until now. ²³ 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. ²⁴ It was in this hope that we were saved. But a hope that can be seen is not a hope, for who hopes for what he sees? ²⁵ But when we hope for something that we do not see, we wait persistently for it.

²⁶ In the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit itself pleads for us with inexpressible yearnings, ²⁷ and he who searches our hearts knows what the Spirit means, for it pleads for God's people in accordance with his will.

²⁸ We know that in everything God works with those who love him, whom he has called in accordance with his purpose, to bring about what is good. ²⁹ For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers; ³⁰ and those whom he has predestined he calls, and those whom he calls he makes upright, and those whom he makes upright he glorifies.