Romans 8:20
18 I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.
19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.
For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
- KJV
- For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
- WEB
- For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
- ASV
- For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope
- DARBY
- for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected [the same], in hope
- BLB
- For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the One having subjected [it], in hope
- ÅB
- Skaperverket ble jo lagt under forgjengelighet – ikke frivillig, men etter viljen til ham som underla det –
- OTB
- For skapningen ble underlagt forgjengelighet, ikke av egen vilje, men ved viljen til den som underla den, i håp
- B1930
- skapningen blev jo lagt under forgjengelighet - ikke godvillig, men efter hans vilje som la den derunder -
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 3:17–19
And 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.
Read in contextGenesis 5:29
And 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.”
Read in contextRomans 8:22
We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.
Read in contextJeremiah 12:4
How 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.”
Read in contextIsaiah 24:5–6
The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
Read in contextJeremiah 14:5–6
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Read in contextHosea 4:3
Therefore 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.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 1:2
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
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