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Romans 8:17
The 2026 edition cites 2 passages containing Romans 8:17, each printed here in the KJV with every place in the Constitution that cites it.
Romans 8:15-17
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Cited by 1 place in the Constitution
Testimony of the RPCNA 1
- T 12.2
Justification and adoption, although inseparably connected, are nevertheless distinct from one another. They are both acts of God’s free grace. They are both…
Romans 8:17
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Cited by 4 places in the Constitution
Westminster Confession of Faith 1
- CF 12.1
All those that are justified, God vouchsafeth, in and for His only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption: by which they are taken into…
Testimony of the RPCNA 1
- T 12.3
Justification applies to believers as those who were guilty, and in a state of condemnation, but whose sins are now pardoned, and they are accounted righteous.…
Larger Catechism 1
- LC 74
Adoption is an act of the free grace of God, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, whereby all those that are justified are received into the number of his…
Shorter Catechism 1
- SC 34
Adoption is an act of God’s free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God.