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18 [But what of that?] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and [a]for us and [b]conferred on us!

19 For [even the whole] creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God’s sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship].

20 For the creation (nature) was subjected to [c]frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it—[yet] with the hope(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:18 Charles B. Williams, The New Testament: A Translation in the Language of the People.
  2. Romans 8:18 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  3. Romans 8:20 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

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