Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Romans 8:19

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

KJV

ἡ γὰρ ἀποκαραδοκία τῆς κτίσεως τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν τῶν υἱῶν τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπεκδέχεται·

Greek NT

Nam exspectatio creaturæ revelationem filiorum Dei exspectat.

Vulgate

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

ASV

For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
κτίσις
ktisis
noun · 19×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ἀπεκδέχομαι
apekdechomai
verb · 8×
ἀποκάλυψις
apokalupsis
noun · 18×
ἀποκαραδοκία
apokaradokia
noun · 2×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§280Creation is the foundation of "all God's saving plans," the "beginning of the history of salvation"117 that culminates in Christ. Conversely, the mystery of Christ casts conclusive light on the mystery of creation and reveals the end for which "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth": from the beginning, God envisaged the glory of the new creation in Christ.118
§671Though already present in his Church, Christ's reign is nevertheless yet to be fulfilled "with power and great glory" by the King's return to earth.556 This reign is still under attack by the evil powers, even though they have been defeated definitively by Christ's Passover.557 Until everything is subject to him, "until there be realized new heavens and a new earth in which jus…
§1046For the cosmos, Revelation affirms the profound common destiny of the material world and man: For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God . . . in hope because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay.... We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we our…
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In that flesh in which the saints have suffered so many afflictions, they shall receive the fruits of their labours; especially since all creation waits for this, and God promises it to Abraham and his seed. 1. Inasmuch, therefore, as the opinions of certain [orthodox persons] are derived from heretical discourses, they are both ignorant of God's dispensations, and of the myste…
The Church, to which we are all called in Christ Jesus, and in which we acquire sanctity through the grace of God, will attain its full perfection only in the glory of heaven, when there will come the time of the restoration of all things. At that time, together with the human race, the universe itself, which is so closely related to man and which attains its destiny through hi…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 1:7 — So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
  • 1John 3:2 — Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
  • 2Pet 3:11 — Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
  • Acts 3:21 — Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
  • Gal 4:5 — To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
  • Gen 49:18 — I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
  • Isa 64:4 — For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
  • Isa 65:17 — For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
  • Luke 21:28 — And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
  • Mal 3:17 — And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
  • Matt 25:31 — When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
  • Phil 1:20 — According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or
  • Phil 1:20 — According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or
  • Rev 21:1 — And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
  • Rom 8:14 — For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
  • Rom 8:21 — Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
  • Rom 8:23 — And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
  • Rom 8:23 — And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.