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Future Glory

18 I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God;[a] 20 for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope;

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Footnotes

  1. 8.19 Material creation, too, shares man’s destiny, made as it was for him. Many ancient philosophers thought matter to be evil, and that the spirit should be freed from it.

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