Romans 8:19

For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, is waiting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

In Context

18Why, what we now suffer I count as nothing in comparison with the glory which is soon to be manifested in us.

20For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it).

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Cross References

Matthew 25:31"When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then will He sit upon His glorious throne,

Romans 8:23And more than that, we ourselves, though we possess the Spirit as a foretaste and pledge of the glorious future, yet we ourselves inwardly sigh, as we wait and long for open recognition as sons through the deliverance of our bodies.

2 Peter 3:11Since all these things are thus pre-destined to dissolution, what sort of men ought you to be found to be in all holy living and godly conduct,

Revelation 21:1And I saw a new Heaven and a new earth; for the first Heaven and the first earth were gone, and the sea no longer exists.

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 →

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