Romans 8:12-20
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12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
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13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
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14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
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15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
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16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
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17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
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18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
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19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
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20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,