Psalm 38:9,4  Lord, all my desire is before You; And my sighing is not hidden from You. • For my iniquities are gone over my head; As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

Romans 7:24  Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?

Romans 8:22,23  For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. • And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

1 Peter 1:6  In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials,

2 Peter 1:14  knowing that the laying aside of my earthly dwelling is imminent, as also our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

1 Corinthians 15:53,54  For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. • But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory.

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