22. For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth.
23. But it is not just creation alone which groans; we who have the Spirit as the first of God's gifts also groan within ourselves, as we wait for God to make us his children and set our whole being free.
24. For it was by hope that we were saved; but if we see what we hope for, then it is not really hope. For which of us hopes for something we see?