Romans 8:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope.

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  • Gen 3:17-19 : 17 Then to Adam He said, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
  • Gen 5:29 : 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD has cursed.
  • Gen 6:13 : 13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
  • Job 12:6-9 : 6 The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure; into whose hand God brings abundantly. 7 But ask now the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you: 8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you: and the fish of the sea will declare to you. 9 Who does not know in all these that the hand of the LORD has wrought this? 10 In His 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 defiled under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
  • Jer 12:4 : 4 How long will the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds are consumed, because they said, 'He will not see our final end.'
  • Jer 12:11 : 11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart.
  • Jer 14:5-6 : 5 Even the deer gave birth in the field, and abandoned it, because there was no grass. 6 And the wild donkeys stood on the high places, they sniffed the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because there was no grass.
  • Hos 4:3 : 3 Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; yes, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away.
  • Joel 1:18 : 18 How the animals groan! the herds of cattle 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 labors with birth pangs together until now.

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    21Because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

    22For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

    23And not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

    24For we are saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?

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

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

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

    19For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.

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    23And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.

    24Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,

    25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

    26For this reason God gave them up to vile passions: for even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.

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    19Because what may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it to them.

    20For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

    21Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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    21Who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, according to the working by which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.

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    5For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in subjection to the angels.

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    7You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor, and set him over the works of Your hands:

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    5For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.

    6You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

    7All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;

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    18Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

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    19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.

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    27For He has put all things under His feet. But when He says 'all things are put under Him,' it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted.

    28Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.

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    22What if God, willing to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction:

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    4For whatever things were written in the past were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

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

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    4For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that mortality might be swallowed up by life.

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    29For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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    3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the basic principles of the world:

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    12But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption;

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    20But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?

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    19Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust the keeping of their souls to him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.

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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

    3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, to condemn sin in the flesh.

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    7For every kind of beast, and of bird, and of serpent, and of things in the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind.

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    16For by him all things were created, that are in heaven, and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and for him:

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    20For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

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    8So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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

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    10I have seen the task which God has given to the sons of men to be occupied with.

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    4And patience, character; and character, hope:

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    20He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

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    2For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our dwelling which is from heaven:

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    9Nor was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man.