Romans 8:19-21

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¹⁹For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God;^[a] ²⁰for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; ²¹because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.

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8.19 Material creation, too, shares man’s destiny, made as it was for him. Many ancient philosophers thought matter to be evil, and that the spirit should be freed from it.

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