12. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
13. For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.
14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15. For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.
16. The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, so that we may be also glorified together.
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.
19. For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20. For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope,
21. Because the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
23. And not only they, but ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is, the redemption of our body.