that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.
whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
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.
But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
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