Romans 8:20

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 5:29

And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which LORD has cursed.

Romans 8:22

For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing together until now.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds, because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

Hosea 4:3

Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone who dwells in it shall languish with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. Yea, the fishes of the sea shall also be taken away.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Genesis 6:13

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.

Joel 1:18

How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture, yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

Jeremiah 12:11

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.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

Romans 8:24

For we were saved to hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what is seen, why also hope for that?