Romans 8:20
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
KJV
τῇ γὰρ ματαιότητι ἡ κτίσις ὑπετάγη, οὐχ ἑκοῦσα ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν ὑποτάξαντα, ἐφ’ ἐλπίδι
Greek NT
Vanitati enim creatura subjecta est non volens, sed propter eum, qui subjecit eam in spe :
Vulgate
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope
ASV
For the creature was made subject to vanity: not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
κτίσις
ktisis
noun · 19×
ματαιότης
mataiotes
noun · 3×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἐλπίς
elpis
noun · 53×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἑκών
ekon
adjective · 2×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑποτάσσω
upotasso
verb · 38×
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Gen 3:17 · allusion"And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all th…"Genesis: cursed is the ground — creation subjected to futility
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἐφ᾽ | WH/NIV: ἐφ᾽ | Treg/RP: ἐπ᾽
- ἐφ᾽ — SBLGNT
- ἐφ᾽ — Westcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐπ᾽ — Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 4 passages
§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…
…and 1 more from this source.
1. Great mysteries are they, of which the Only-begotten Son of God has counted us worthy; great, and such as we were not worthy of, but such as it was meet for Him to give. For if one reckon our desert, we were not only unworthy of the gift, but also liable to punishment and vengeance; but He, because He looked not to this, not only delivered us from punishment, but freely gave…
Chapter 1. On the World. 1. Although all the discussions in the preceding book have had reference to the world and its arrangements, it now seems to follow that we should specially re-discuss a few points respecting the world itself, i.e., its beginning and end, or those dispensations of Divine Providence which have taken place between the beginning and the end, or those events…
1. How Christians are the Spiritual Israel. That people which was called of old the people of God was divided into twelve tribes, and over and above the other tribes it had the levitical order, which itself again carried on the service of God in various priestly and levitical suborders. In the same manner, it appears to me that the whole people of Christ, when we regard it in t…
Cross-references
- 2Pet 3:10 — But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that
- Eccl 1:2 — Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- Eccl 1:2 — Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- Gen 3:17 — And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sak
- Gen 3:17 — And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sak
- Gen 5:29 — And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
- Gen 6:13 — And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
- Gen 7:21 — And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
- Gen 8:1 — And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
- Hos 4:3 — Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
- Isa 24:5 — The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
- Isa 24:5 — The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
- Jer 12:4 — How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last
- Jer 12:11 — They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
- Jer 14:5 — Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
- Job 12:6 — The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
- Joel 1:18 — How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
- Jonah 3:7 — And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor dri
- Ps 102:26 — They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
- Rom 5:14 — Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
- Rom 8:22 — For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
- Rom 8:22 — For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.