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.
16 The Spirit itself beareth 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, 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 creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature 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 groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
a message from the book of mormon
helaman 9
6 Now,
immediately when the judge had been murdered—he being stabbed by his
brother by a garb of secrecy, and he fled, and the servants ran and told
the people, raising the cry of murder among them;
7 And
behold the people did gather themselves together unto the place of the
judgment-seat—and behold, to their astonishment they saw those afive men who had fallen to the earth.
8 And now behold, the people knew nothing concerning the multitude who had gathered together at the agarden
of Nephi; therefore they said among themselves: These men are they who
have murdered the judge, and God has smitten them that they could not
flee from us.
9 And
it came to pass that they laid hold on them, and bound them and cast
them into prison. And there was a proclamation sent abroad that the
judge was slain, and that the murderers had been taken and were cast
into prison.
10 And it came to pass that on the morrow the people did assemble themselves together to amourn and to bfast, at the burial of the great chief judge who had been slain.
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