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Romans 8:20
Romans 8:20 is verse 20 of Romans chapter 8, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
King James Version
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
World English Bible
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
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Romans 8:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.
19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.
20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.
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Romans 8:22We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.
Genesis 3:17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Genesis 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground— because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 5:29And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
Genesis 6:13Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.
Job 12:7But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
Job 12:8Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you.
Job 12:9Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
Isaiah 24:5The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
Isaiah 24:6Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.
Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
Jeremiah 12:11They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
Jeremiah 14:5Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Jeremiah 14:6Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
Joel 1:18How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.