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-# Connecting Statement:
-
-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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 # the creation itself will be delivered
 
-You can translate this in an active form. Alternate translation: "God will save creation" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
+"God will save creation" 
 
 # from slavery to decay
 
-Here being in slavery to decay is a metaphor for being certain to decay. Alternate translation: "from being like a slave to decay" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
+"from being like a slave to decay"
 
 # that it will be brought into the freedom of the glory of the children of God
 
-"Freedom" here is in contrast with slavery to decay. It is a metaphor meaning that the creation will not decay. Alternate translation: "that it will become gloriously free from decay like the children of God" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
+"that it will become gloriously free from decay like the children of God"