Romans 8:20 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁰ For the creation was subjected  to futility   #– #not willingly, but because of him who subjected it   #– #in the hope

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ For the creation (nature) was subjected to frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it–[yet] with the hope [Eccl. 1:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope

Common English Bible

²⁰ Creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice—it was the choice of the one who subjected it—but in the hope

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ For the creature was made subject to emptiness, not willingly, but for the sake of the One who made it subject, unto hope.

Romans 8:20 Cross References

Genesis 5:29

And he named him Noah,  saying, ‘This one will bring us relief from the agonising labour of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.’

Genesis 6:13

Then God said to Noah, ‘I have decided to put an end to every creature, for the earth is filled with wickedness because of them; therefore I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

‘Absolute futility,’ says the Teacher. ‘Absolute futility. Everything is futile.’

Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it a desolation. It mourns, desolate, before me. All the land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? Because of the evil of its residents, animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, ‘He cannot see what our end will be.’  ,

Hosea 4:3

For this reason the land mourns, and everyone who lives in it languishes, along with the wild animals  and the birds of the sky; even the fish of the sea disappear.

Joel 1:18

How the animals groan! The herds of cattle wander in confusion since they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep and goats suffer punishment.

Romans 8:22

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labour pains  until now.

Romans 8:24

Now in this hope  we were saved, but hope  that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?