Romans 8:20
for to vanity was the creation made subject—not of its will, but because of Him who subjected [it]—in hope,
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In Context
19for the earnest looking out of the creation expects the revelation of the sons of God;
Cross References
Genesis 5:29and calls his name Noah, saying, “This [one] comforts us concerning our work, and concerning the labor of our hands, because of the ground which YHWH has cursed.”
Job 12:6The tents of spoilers are at peace, || And those provoking God have confidence, || Into whose hand God has brought.
Isaiah 24:5And the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, || Because they have transgressed laws, || They have changed a statute, || They have made void a perpetual covenant.
Jeremiah 12:11He has made it become a desolation, || The desolation has mourned to Me, || All the land has been desolated, || But there is no one laying it to heart.
Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, || And every dweller is weak in it, || With the beast of the field, || And with the bird of the heavens, || And the fishes of the sea—they are removed.
Romans 8:22for we have known that all the creation groans together, and travails in pain 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 →