17 [a]If we be children, we are also [b]heirs, even the heirs of God, and heirs annexed with Christ: [c]if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

18 [d]For I [e]count that the afflictions of this present time are not worthy of the glory, which shall be showed unto us.

19 [f]For the fervent desire of the [g]creature waiteth when the sons of God shall be revealed,

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:17 A proof of the consequent of the confirmation: because that he which is the Son of God, doth enjoy God with Christ.
  2. Romans 8:17 Partakers of our father’s goods, and that freely, because we are children by adoption.
  3. Romans 8:17 Now Paul teacheth by what way the sons of God do come to that felicity, to wit, by the cross, as Christ himself did: and therewithall openeth unto them fountains of comfort: as first, that we have Christ a companion and fellow of our afflictions: secondly, that we shall be also his followers in that everlasting glory.
  4. Romans 8:18 Thirdly that this glory which we look for, doth a thousand parts surmount the misery of our afflictions.
  5. Romans 8:18 All being well considered, I gather.
  6. Romans 8:19 Fourthly, he plainly teacheth us that we shall certainly be renewed from that confusion and horrible deformation of the whole world, which cannot be continual, as it was not at the beginning: But as it had a beginning by the sin of man, for whom it was made by the ordinance of God, so shall it at length be restored with the elect.
  7. Romans 8:19 All this world.

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