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Romans 8:21

James Moffatt - New Testament

the hope being that creation as well as man would one day be freed from its thraldom to decay and gain the glorious freedom of the children of God.

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who must be kept in heaven till the period of the great Restoration. Ages ago God spoke of this by the lips of his holy prophets;

Then I saw the new heaven and the new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; and the sea is no more.

It is new heavens and a new earth that we expect, as He has promised, and in them dwells righteousness.

Even the creation waits with eager longing for the sons of God to be revealed.

Then he calls those whom he has thus decreed; then he justifies those whom he has called; then he glorifies those whom he has justified.

So with the resurrection of the dead: what is sown is mortal, what rises is immortal;

That phrase, once again, denotes the removal of what is shaken (as no more than created), to leave only what stands unshaken.