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-# Connecting Statement:
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-Paul continues to remind the believers in Rome that sometime in the future, God will change their bodies in a glorious way.
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 # For we know that the whole creation groans and labors in pain together even now
 
-The creation is compared to a woman groaning while giving birth to a baby. Alternate translation: "For we know that everything that God created wants to be free and groans for it the way a woman giving birth groans for her baby to be born" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
+"For we know that everything that God created wants to be free and groans for it the way a woman giving birth groans for her baby to be born"