18-21 That’s why I don’t think there’s any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what’s coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens.

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19 For the creation waits with eager longing for (A)the revealing of the sons of God.

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19 For [even the whole] creation [all nature] waits eagerly for the children of God to be revealed.

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