Ummm... EG, I was thinking this verses might be easier to understand then Romans 7, to support the statement that Paul was NOT perfect and looked to the resurrection to achieve perfection and complete adoption into the family of God...
Philippians 3:10-15
New King James Version (NKJV)
10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you.
Romans 8:20-23
New King James Version (NKJV)
20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. 23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
The Holy Spirit is the PROMISE of adoption but is not fulfilled until we are given our glorified bodies upon resurrection. We who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, yet still clothed in this flesh that will be destroyed either by death or the second coming of Christ. Hope is not what is seen but what is not seen and held in the promise of the unseen which is the PHYSICAL resurrection of all God's elect not just the Spiritual resurrection of their souls.