- Indeed, creation itself eagerly awaits the revelation of the children of God.
- But if we hope for what we do not yet see, then we wait for it with patience.
- In the same way, even the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs that cannot be put into words.
- And the one who searches hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.
- We know that God makes all things work together for good for those who love him and who are called according to his purpose.
- What then can we say in response to all this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- He did not spare his own Son but gave him up for all of us. How then can he fail also to give us everything else along with him?
- Who then can separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?
- No, throughout all these things we are conquerors because of him who loved us.
- For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- For Christ is the fulfillment of the Law for the justification of all who believe.
- If you confess with your lips, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- For one believes in the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.
- As Scripture asserts, “No one who believes in him will be put to shame.”
- Indeed, “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
- So then, faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.
- Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unfathomable his ways!
- For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
With all humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another in a spirit of love.