17. and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Messiah, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
18. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
19. For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
20. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
21. that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
22. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.