“And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. — Believers, possessing the ἀπαρχή (aparkhē, "firstfruits") of the πνεῦμα (pneuma, "Spirit"), also στενάζω (stenazō, "groan")—sighing toward eschatological fullness. The redemptio corporis (ἀπολύτρωσις τοῦ σώματος, apolytrōsis tou sōmatos, "redemption of the body") is still pending. Present possession of the Spirit intensifies awareness of incompleteness. The groaning is the Spirit's and the believer's intercession.
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