Romans 8:21
Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
In Context
22For we know that every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain, even till now.
Cross References
Romans 8:19For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God. The expectation of the creature, etc... He speaks of the corporeal creation, made for the use and service of man; and, by occasion of his sin, made subject to vanity, that is, to a perpetual instability, tending to corruption and other defects; so that by a figure of speech it is here said to groan and be in labour, and to long for its deliverance, which is then to come, when sin shall reign no more; and God shall raise the bodies and unite them to their souls never more to separate, and to be in everlasting happiness in heaven.
Revelation 21:1I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone: and the sea is now no more. The first heaven and the first earth was gone, being changed, not as to their substance, but in their qualities.
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 →