Actually, when I was in pastoral ministry I sometimes used this passage, cheekily, for this purpose. I had one or two regular readers – people who would volunteer to read scripture during worship – who liked to insist on using the King James Version. So I would give them passages such as this one to read. Here are verses 19–21 in the King James: For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall
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