21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers agony together until now. 23 Not only this, but we ourselves also, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves while we[a] await eagerly our adoption, the redemption of our body.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:23 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“await eagerly”) which is understood as temporal