Romans 8:20
For the creation was made subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
19For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Cross References
Genesis 5:29And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which LORD has cursed.
Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].
Isaiah 24:5The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants of it, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 12:11They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
Hosea 4:3Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone who dwells in it shall languish with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. Yea, the fishes of the sea shall also be taken away.
Romans 8:22For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing together until now.
Matthew Henry on Romans 8:18-26
The Believer's Privileges. ( a. d. 58.) 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath… Read the whole commentary →