23. But it is not just creation alone which groans; we who have the Spirit as the first of God's gifts also groan within ourselves, as we wait for God to make us his children and set our whole being free.
24. For it was by hope that we were saved; but if we see what we hope for, then it is not really hope. For which of us hopes for something we see?
25. But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
26. In the same way the Spirit also comes to help us, weak as we are. For we do not know how we ought to pray; the Spirit himself pleads with God for us in groans that words cannot express.
27. And God, who sees into our hearts, knows what the thought of the Spirit is; because the Spirit pleads with God on behalf of his people and in accordance with his will.
28. We know that in all things God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called according to his purpose.
29. Those whom God had already chosen he also set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the eldest brother in a large family.
30. And so those whom God set apart, he called; and those he called, he put right with himself, and he shared his glory with them.
31. In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32. Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son — will he not also freely give us all things?
33. Who will accuse God's chosen people? God himself declares them not guilty!
34. Who, then, will condemn them? Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised to life and is at the right-hand side of God, pleading with him for us!
35. Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death?
36. As the scripture says,“For your sake we are in danger of death at all times;we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered.”
37. No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!
38. For I am certain that nothing can separate us from his love: neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers or powers, neither the present nor the future,
39. neither the world above nor the world below — there is nothing in all creation that will ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord.