21. that creation itself would one day be set free from its slavery to decay and would share the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22. For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth.
23. But it is not just creation alone which groans; we who have the Spirit as the first of God's gifts also groan within ourselves, as we wait for God to make us his children and set our whole being free.