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21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
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that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
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We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
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Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
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For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have?
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