Quotes About Redemption

For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

Who will bring any charge against Godís elect? It is God who justifies.

Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

So it is not the children of the flesh who are Godís children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

So then, it does not depend on manís desire or effort, but on Godís mercy.

Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.

including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ëMy Peopleí who are not My people, and I will call her ëMy Belovedí who is not My beloved,”

and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ëYou are not My people,í they will be called ësons of the living God.í”

What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.

Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

Brothers, my heartís desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.

For Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes.

or, ëWho will descend into the Abyss?í (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”

It is just as the Scripture says: “Anyone who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”