Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Romans 8:23
Not only [they], but ourselves also. Not only does the world groan,
but Christians, though they have
the firstfruits of the Spirit, a pledge of a rich and full harvest,
groan. There is an eager longing for the fuller enjoyment promised.
Waiting for the adoption. We are already adopted children, but
rather in expectation that in realization. We have not received the
inheritance, the full "revealing of the sons of God" (Romans 8:19,
Revised Version).
The redemption of our body. When the full adoption comes, we
will not have these poor, frail, dying bodies, subject to weakness,
sinfulness and decay, but spiritual bodies. "For in this we do groan,
earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from
heaven" (2 Corinthians 5:2).
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Romans 8:23
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