Bible Gateway passage: Romans 8:18-31 - New International Version (2024)

Present Suffering and Future Glory

¹⁸I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.^{(A) 19}For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God^(B) to be revealed. ²⁰For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,^(C) in hope ²¹that^[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay^(D) and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.^(E)

²²We know that the whole creation has been groaning^(F) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,^(G) groan^(H) inwardly as we wait eagerly^(I) for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.^{(J) 24}For in this hope we were saved.^(K) But hope that is seen is no hope at all.^(L) Who hopes for what they already have? ²⁵But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.^(M)

²⁶In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit^(N) himself intercedes for us^(O) through wordless groans. ²⁷And he who searches our hearts^(P) knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes^(Q) for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

²⁸And we know that in all things God works for the good^(R) of those who love him, who^[b] have been called^(S) according to his purpose.^{(T) 29}For those God foreknew^(U) he also predestined^(V) to be conformed to the image of his Son,^(W) that he might be the firstborn^(X) among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰And those he predestined,^(Y) he also called;^(Z) those he called, he also justified;^(AA) those he justified, he also glorified.^(AB)

More Than Conquerors

³¹What, then, shall we say in response to these things?^(AC) If God is for us,^(AD) who can be against us?^(AE)

Footnotes

1. Romans 8:21 Or subjected it in hope. ²¹For
2. Romans 8:28 Or that all things work together for good to those who love God, who; or that in all things God works together with those who love him to bring about what is good—with those who

Cross references

1. Romans 8:18 : 2Co 4:17; 1Pe 4:13; 5:1
2. Romans 8:19 : S ver 14
3. Romans 8:20 : Ge 3:17-19; 5:29
4. Romans 8:21 : Ac 3:21; 2Pe 3:13; Rev 21:1
5. Romans 8:21 : S Jn 1:12
6. Romans 8:22 : Jer 12:4
7. Romans 8:23 : S 2Co 5:5
8. Romans 8:23 : 2Co 5:2, 4
9. Romans 8:23 : ver 19; Gal 5:5
10. Romans 8:23 : ver 11; Php 3:21
11. Romans 8:24 : 1Th 5:8; Tit 3:7
12. Romans 8:24 : S 2Co 4:18
13. Romans 8:25 : Ps 37:7
14. Romans 8:26 : ver 15, 16
15. Romans 8:26 : Eph 6:18
16. Romans 8:27 : S Rev 2:23
17. Romans 8:27 : S ver 34
18. Romans 8:28 : Ge 50:20; Isa 38:17; Jer 29:11
19. Romans 8:28 : ver 30; Ro 11:29; 1Co 1:9; Gal 1:6, 15; Eph 4:1, 4; 1Th 2:12; 2Ti 1:9; Heb 9:15; 1Pe 2:9; 2Pe 1:10
20. Romans 8:28 : Eph 1:11; 3:11; Heb 6:17
21. Romans 8:29 : Ro 11:2; 1Pe 1:2
22. Romans 8:29 : Eph 1:5, 11
23. Romans 8:29 : 1Co 15:49; 2Co 3:18; Php 3:21; 1Jn 3:2
24. Romans 8:29 : S Col 1:18
25. Romans 8:30 : Eph 1:5, 11
26. Romans 8:30 : S ver 28
27. Romans 8:30 : S Ro 4:25
28. Romans 8:30 : Ro 9:23
29. Romans 8:31 : Ro 4:1; 6:1; 7:7; 9:14, 30
30. Romans 8:31 : Ex 3:12; Isa 41:10; Hag 1:13
31. Romans 8:31 : Ps 56:9; 118:6; Isa 8:10; Jer 20:11; Heb 13:6