Romans 8:20

World English Bible (2000)

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

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  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 Thorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. 19 By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Gen 5:29 : 29 and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
  • Gen 6:13 : 13 God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
  • Job 12:6-9 : 6 The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands. 7 "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you. 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you. 9 Who doesn't know that in all these, the hand of Yahweh has done this, 10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
  • Isa 24:5-6 : 5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
  • Jer 12:4 : 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
  • Jer 12:11 : 11 They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
  • Jer 14:5-6 : 5 Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass. 6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
  • Hos 4:3 : 3 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. 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.
  • Joel 1:18 : 18 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
  • Rom 8:22 : 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

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    21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

    22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

    23 Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

    24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

    25 But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.

  • Rom 8:17-19
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    17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

    18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

    19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

  • Rom 1:23-26
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    23 and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.

    24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

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

    26 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

  • Rom 1:19-21
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    19 because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.

    20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

    21 Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

  • Phil 3:21
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    21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

  • Heb 2:5
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    5 For he didn't subject the world to come, of which we speak, to angels.

  • Heb 2:7-8
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    7 You made him a little lower than the angels. You crowned him with glory and honor.

    8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet." For in that he subjected all things to him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we don't see all things subjected to him, yet.

  • Ps 8:5-7
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    5 For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.

    6 You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

    7 All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,

  • Jas 1:18
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    18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

  • 1 Cor 15:27-28
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    27 For, "He put all things in subjection under his feet." But when he says, "All things are put in subjection," it is evident that he is excepted who subjected all things to him.

    28 When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

  • Rom 9:22-23
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    22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction,

    23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

  • Rom 15:4
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    4 For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

  • Gal 5:5
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    5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

  • Eph 2:10
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    10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

  • 2 Cor 5:4-5
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    4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

    5 Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

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    29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

  • Gal 4:3
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    3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

  • 2 Pet 2:12
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    12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

  • Rom 9:20
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    20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

  • 1 Pet 4:19
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    19 Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

  • Rom 8:2-3
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    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

    3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

  • Jas 3:7
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    7 For every kind of animal, bird, creeping thing, and thing in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind.

  • Col 1:16
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    16 For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

  • Rom 6:20
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    20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

  • Rom 8:8
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    8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

  • 2 Cor 8:5
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    5 This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

  • Eccl 3:10
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    10 I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

  • Rom 5:4
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    4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

  • 1 Pet 1:20
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    20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake,

  • 2 Cor 5:2
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    2 For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;

  • 1 Cor 11:9
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    9 for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.