Letters to the Churches

For ye haue not receiued the Spirit of bodage, to feare againe: but ye haue receiued the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, Father.

The same Spirit beareth witnesse with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

If we be children, we are also heires, euen the heires of God, and heires annexed with Christ: if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

For I count that the afflictions of this present time are not worthy of the glory, which shalbe shewed vnto vs.

For the feruent desire of the creature waiteth when the sonnes of God shalbe reueiled,

Because the creature is subiect to vanitie, not of it owne will, but by reason of him, which hath subdued it vnder hope,

Because the creature also shall be deliuered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God.

For we knowe that euery creature groneth with vs also, and trauaileth in paine together vnto this present.

And not onely the creature, but we also which haue the first fruites of the Spirit, euen we doe sigh in our selues, waiting for the adoption, euen the redemption of our body.

For we are saued by hope: but hope that is seene, is not hope: for how can a man hope for that which he seeth?

But if we hope for that we see not, we doe with patience abide for it.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we knowe not what to pray as wee ought: but the Spirit it selfe maketh request for vs with sighs, which cannot be expressed.

But he that searcheth the heartes, knoweth what is the meaning of the Spirit: for he maketh request for ye Saints, according to the wil of God.

Also we knowe that all thinges worke together for the best vnto them that loue God, euen to them that are called of his purpose.

For those which hee knewe before, he also predestinate to bee made like to the image of his Sonne, that hee might be the first borne among many brethren.

Moreouer whom he predestinate, them also he called, and whom he called, them also he iustified, and whom he iustified, them he also glorified.

What shall we then say to these thinges? If God be on our side, who can be against vs?

Who spared not his owne Sonne, but gaue him for vs all to death, how shall he not with him giue vs all things also?

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen? it is God that iustifieth,

Who shall condemne? it is Christ which is dead, yea, or rather, which is risen againe, who is also at the right hand of God, and maketh request also for vs.

Who shall separate vs from the loue of Christ? shall tribulation or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakednesse, or perill, or sworde?

As it is written, For thy sake are we killed all day long: we are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.

Neuerthelesse, in all these thinges we are more then coquerours through him that loued vs.

For I am perswaded that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shalbe able to separate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christ Iesus our Lord.