◄ Romans 8:21 ►
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Good News Translation
that creation itself would one day be set free from its slavery to decay and would share the glorious freedom of the children of God.

New Revised Standard Version
that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Contemporary English Version
that creation would be set free from decay and would share in the glorious freedom of his children.

New American Bible
that creation itself would be set free from slavery to corruption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Because.

2 Peter 3:13 But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.

into the glorious.

Romans 8:19 For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God.

Revelation 22:3-5 And there shall be no curse any more: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it. And his servants shall serve him. . . .

Context
Future Glory
…20For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope. 21Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. 22For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, even till now.…
Cross References
Acts 3:21
Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the beginning of the world.

Romans 8:30
And whom he predestinated, them he also called. And whom he called, them he also justified. And whom he justified, them he also glorified.

1 Corinthians 15:42
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption: it shall rise in incorruption.

Hebrews 12:27
And in that he saith: Yet once more, he signifieth the translation of the moveable things as made, that those things may remain which are immoveable.

2 Peter 3:13
But we look for new heavens and a new earth according to his promises, in which justice dwelleth.

Revelation 21:1
I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more.

Romans 8:20
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