Romans 8:18-21 Part 2 of 2

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

 

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it

Genesis 3:17-19  To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

Genesis 5:28-29  When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son. He named him Noah and said, "He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the LORD has cursed."

 

in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay 

Acts 3:21  "Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets."

2 Peter 3:13  But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.

Revelation 21:1  Then I saw "a new heaven and a new earth," (Isaiah 65:17) for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

 

and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God 

John 1:12-13  Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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