We are children of God
All who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not
receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit
of adoption. When we cry, "Abba! Father! it is that very spirit bearing
witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then
heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ - if, in fact, we suffer with him
so that we may also be glorified with him. I consider the sufferings of
this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be
revealed to us. "For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing
of the children of God. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died,
yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes
for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or
distress, or persection or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? No, in
all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor
things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor
anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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