Romans 8:20
for to vanity was the creation made subject — not of its will, but because of Him who did subject [it] — in hope,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
19for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God;
Cross References
Genesis 5:29and calleth his name Noah, saying, 'This [one] doth comfort us concerning our work, and concerning the labour of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.'
Job 12:6At peace are the tents of spoilers, And those provoking God have confidence, He into whose hand God hath brought.
Isaiah 24:5And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.
Jeremiah 12:11He hath made it become a desolation, The desolation hath mourned unto Me, Desolated hath been all the land, But there is no one laying it to heart.
Hosea 4:3Therefore mourn doth the land, And weak is every dweller in it, With the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the fishes of the sea — they are removed.
Romans 8:22for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till 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 →