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Romans 8:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

that the creation itself will be set free from its enslavement to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

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who must remain in heaven until the time of universal restoration that God announced long ago through his holy prophets.

For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God,

And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.

This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what is shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

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