Romans 8:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope”
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“For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,”
King James Version · Public Domain“For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for to vanity was the creation made subject--not of its will, but because of Him who did subject <FI>it<Fi> --in hope,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Romans 8:20 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 3:17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- Genesis 5:29And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
- Genesis 6:13Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
- Job 12:6The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure— those who carry their god in their hands.
- Ecclesiastes 1:2“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
- Isaiah 24:5The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
- Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
- Jeremiah 12:11They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
- Jeremiah 14:5Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
- Hosea 4:3Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
- Joel 1:18How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
- Romans 8:22We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.
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