12. So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;
13. for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;
14. for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;
15. for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'
16. The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God;
17. and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ--if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.
18. For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time [are] not worthy [to be compared] with the glory about to be revealed in us;
19. for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God;
20. for to vanity was the creation made subject--not of its will, but because of Him who did subject [it] --in hope,
21. that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;
22. for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.
23. And not only [so], but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting--the redemption of our body;
24. for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for [it]?