Romans 8:20

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For the creation was subjected to futility– not willingly but because of God who subjected it– in hope

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  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 But to Adam he said,“Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘You must not eat from it,’ the ground is cursed because of you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”
  • Gen 5:29 : 29 He named him Noah, saying,“This one will bring us comfort from our labor and from the painful toil of our hands because of the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
  • Gen 6:13 : 13 So God said to Noah,“I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.
  • Job 12:6-9 : 6 But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident– who carry their god in their hands. 7 Knowledge of God’s Wisdom“But now, ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you. 8 Or speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea declare to you. 9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this, 10 in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Introduction: Utter Futility“Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher,“Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”
  • Isa 24:5-6 : 5 The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty. 6 So a treaty curse devours the earth; its inhabitants pay for their guilt. This is why the inhabitants of the earth disappear, and are reduced to just a handful of people.
  • Jer 12:4 : 4 How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast,“God will not see what happens to us.”
  • Jer 12:11 : 11 They will lay it waste. It will lie parched and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste. But no one living in it will pay any heed.
  • Jer 14:5-6 : 5 Even the doe abandons her newborn fawn in the field because there is no grass. 6 Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found.”
  • Hos 4:3 : 3 Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.
  • Joel 1:18 : 18 Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
  • Rom 8:22 : 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

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    21that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

    22For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

    23Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

    24For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

    25But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

  • Rom 8:17-19
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    17And if children, then heirs(namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)– if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

    18For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us.

    19For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

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    23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

    24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

    25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

    26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

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    19because what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

    20For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes– his eternal power and divine nature– have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.

    21For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

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    21who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself.

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    5Exposition of Psalm 8: Jesus and the Destiny of Humanity For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

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    7You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You crowned him with glory and honor.

    8You put all things under his control.” For when he put all things under his control, he left nothing outside of his control. At present we do not yet see all things under his control,

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    5You made them a little less than the heavenly beings. You crowned mankind with honor and majesty.

    6you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority,

    7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,

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    18By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

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    27For he has put everything in subjection under his feet. But when it says“everything” has been put in subjection, it is clear that this does not include the one who put everything in subjection to him.

    28And when all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God may be all in all.

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    22But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

    23And what if he is willing to make known the wealth of his glory on the objects of mercy that he has prepared beforehand for glory–

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    4For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

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    5For through the Spirit, by faith, we wait expectantly for the hope of righteousness.

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    10For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.

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    4For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

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    29because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

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    3So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

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    12But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

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    20But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”

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    19So then let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls to a faithful Creator as they do good.

  • Rom 8:2-3
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    2For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

    3For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

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    7For every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and sea creature is subdued and has been subdued by humankind.

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    16for all things in heaven and on earth were created in him– all things, whether visible or invisible, whether thrones or dominions, whether principalities or powers– all things were created through him and for him.

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    20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

  • Rom 8:8
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    8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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    5And they did this not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

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    10I have observed the burden that God has given to people to keep them occupied.

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    4and endurance, character, and character, hope.

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    20He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

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    2For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling,

  • 1 Cor 11:9
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    9Neither was man created for the sake of woman, but woman for man.