Romans 8:17
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.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
16The same Spirit beareth witnesse with our spirit, that we are the children of God.
Cross References
Matthew 16:24Iesus then saide to his disciples, If any man will follow me, let him forsake himselfe: and take vp his crosse, and follow me.
Luke 12:32Feare not, litle flocke: for it is your Fathers pleasure, to giue you the kingdome.
Luke 24:26Ought not Christ to haue suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
John 17:24Father, I will that they which thou hast giuen me, be with me euen where I am, that they may beholde that my glorie, which thou hast giuen mee: for thou louedst me before the foundation of the world.
Acts 20:32And nowe brethren, I commend you to God, and to the worde of his grace, which is able to build further, and to giue you an inheritance, among all them, which are sanctified.
Romans 5:9Much more then, being now iustified by his blood, we shalbe saued from wrath through him.
Matthew Henry on Romans 8:11-17
The Believer's Privileges. ( a. d. 58.) 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the… Read the whole commentary →