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Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
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The Christian's Groan
Commentators explain that even believers with the Holy Spirit "groan." This isn't a sign of weak faith but a natural response to the tension of living with a redeemed soul in an unredeemed body, within a fallen world. This groaning is a deep, internal longing for the final completion of our salvation and deliverance from all suffering, weakness, and sin.
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Romans
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And not only they. Not only the creation in general.
But ourselves also. Christians.
Which have the first-fruit…
The first fruits (την απαρχην). Old and common metaphor.
Of the Spirit (του πνευματος). The genitive of ap…
19th Century
Anglican
Nor is it only the rest of creation that groans. We Christians, too, though we possess the firstfruits of the Spirit, nevertheless inwardly groan, …
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Baptist
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the f…
The parallel Paul has been drawing between the saints and the material creation is true in at least two respects—groaning (cf. [Reference 2 Corinth…
16th Century
Protestant
And not only so, etc. There are those who think that the Apostle intended here to exalt the dignity of our future blessedness, an…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And not only they, but ourselves also Not only they Gentiles, but we Jews likewise:
which have th…
The sufferings of the saints strike no deeper than the things of time, last no longer than the present time, are light afflictions, and only for a …
13th Century
Catholic
After demonstrating the excellence of future glory from the longing of creation, the Apostle now demonstrates the same from the longing o…
