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by VioletReigns
[Romans 8:18-23 - [SUP]18 [/SUP]I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. [SUP]19 [/SUP]For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. [SUP]20 [/SUP]For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope [SUP]21 [/SUP]that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. [SUP]22 [/SUP]We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. [SUP]23 [/SUP]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.]