Romans 8:17

As God's children we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, sharing His sufferings and His glory. Our inheritance is certain, and present suffering precedes future glory.

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• Gal 4:7So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
• Gal 3:29If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
• Eph 3:6that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,
• 1 Pet 4:13But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
• Rev 21:7He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
• 1 Pet 1:4to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
• 2 Tim 2:10–14Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• Phil 1:29Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
• John 17:24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
• Titus 3:7that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Heb 6:17In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
• 2 Cor 1:7Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.
• Rom 5:17For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
• John 12:25–26He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
• Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
• Matt 16:24Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
• Rom 5:9–10Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
• 2 Cor 4:8–12We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
• Heb 1:14Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
• Luke 12:32Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
• Acts 20:32Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
• Rev 3:21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
• Rom 8:29–30For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
• Luke 24:26Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”
• Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• Matt 25:21“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
• 1 Cor 2:9But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
• Luke 22:29–30I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,
• 1 Cor 3:22–23whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

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