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21 with the hope that the same creatures shall be delivered from the slavery of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

22 For we now know that all the creatures groan together and travail in pain together until now.

23 And not only they, but ourselves also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, that is to say, the redemption of our body.

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21 that[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay(A) and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.(B)

22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning(C) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,(D) groan(E) inwardly as we wait eagerly(F) for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:21 Or subjected it in hope. 21 For