Romans 8:20

Romans chapter 8 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.19For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.

v.20This passage

v.21that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Hosea 4:3
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 14:5
Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass.
Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Jeremiah 12:11
They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.