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Romans 8:20-22
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Romans 8:20-22
Living Bible
20-21 For on that day thorns and thistles, sin, death, and decay[a]—the things that overcame the world against its will at God’s command—will all disappear, and the world around us will share in the glorious freedom from sin which God’s children enjoy.
22 For we know that even the things of nature, like animals and plants, suffer in sickness and death as they await this great event.[b]
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- Romans 8:20 thorns and thistles, sin, death, and decay, implied.
- Romans 8:22 even the things of nature . . . await this great event, literally, “the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now.”
Romans 8:20-22
New International Version
Romans 8:20-22
New International Version
20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,(A) in hope 21 that[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay(B) and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.(C)
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning(D) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Footnotes
- Romans 8:21 Or subjected it in hope. 21 For
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