Romans 8:20

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

But God subjected the created world to aimless frustration [i.e., after the fall. See Gen. 3:17-18] --- it did not happen by its own choice. Yet there was hope

Cross References

Romans 8:22

For we know that the entire created world moans in painful anguish [i.e., as a woman in childbirth] until this present moment.

Romans 8:24

For in [this] hope we were saved [i.e., we received the hope of future blessings]; but if we [already] see what we hope for, it is not [really] hope. For who hopes for what he [already] sees?