For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
Parallel translations
- KJV For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
- BSB For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
- NKJV For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope;
- NASB For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope
- NLT Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope,
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- Gen 3:17–19To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
- Gen 5:29He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground which Yahweh has cursed.”
- Rom 8:22For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
- Jer 12:4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, “He shall not see our latter end.”
- Isa 24:5–6The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
- Jer 14:5–6Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes her young, because there is no grass.
- Hos 4:3Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
- Eccl 1:2“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
- Gen 6:13God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
- Job 12:6–10The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
- Joel 1:18How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
- Jer 12:11They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
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