Romans 8:18
I do not count the sufferings of our present life worthy of mention when compared with the glory that is to be revealed and bestowed on us.
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In Context
19All nature awaits with eager expectation the appearing of the sons of God.
Cross References
Acts 20:24But I count my life of no value to myself, if only I may complete the course marked out for me, and the task that was allotted me by the Lord Jesus – which was to declare the good news of the love of God.
Colossians 3:4When the Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
2 Thessalonians 2:14To this you were called by the good news which we brought you, to attain to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 11:35Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life.
1 Peter 1:13Therefore concentrate your minds, with the strictest self-control, and fix your hopes on the blessing that is coming for you at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 5:1As for the older ones among you, who are elders in the church, I, their fellow elder, and a witness to the sufferings of the Christ, who will also share in the glory that is to be revealed –
Matthew Henry on Romans 8:18-26
The Believer's Privileges. ( a. d. 58.) 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… Read the whole commentary →