For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
- BSB The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.
- NKJV For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
- NASB For the eagerly awaiting creation waits for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God.
- NLT For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.
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Cross-references · 9
- Mal 3:17–18They shall be mine,” says Yahweh of Armies, “my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
- Rom 8:23Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
- 1 Jn 3:2Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
- Phil 1:20according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.
- 2 Pet 3:11–13Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
- Isa 65:17“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.
- Rev 21:1–5I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
- Acts 3:21whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
- Matt 25:31–46“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
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