The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
ROM 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain together until now.
ROM 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the
firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
ROM 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope:
for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
ROM 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience
wait for it.
ROM 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know
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