Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
19For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
Cross References
Genesis 5:29He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which the LORD has cursed.”
Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.
Isaiah 24:5The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and 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 one cares.
Hosea 4:3Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells in it will waste away, with all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
Romans 8:22For we know that the whole creation groans 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 →