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19 For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God:

20 for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected [the same], in hope

21 that the creature itself also shall be set free from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

22 For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.

23 And not only [that], but even *we* ourselves, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we also ourselves groan in ourselves, awaiting adoption, [that is] the redemption of our body.

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