Romans 8:20 Cross References - NSB

²⁰ For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it’s own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope.

¹⁷ He said to Adam: »Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. ¹⁸ »It will produce thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field. ¹⁹ »You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.«

²⁹ He named him Noah. He said: »He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed.«

¹³ God said to Noah: »I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am going to destroy them with the earth.

⁶ »The tents of marauders prosper and those who provoke God are secure in what God’s hand brings them. ⁷ »Ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the air and they will tell you. ⁸ »Speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. ⁹ »Which of all these does not know that the hand of Jehovah has done this? ¹⁰ »In his hand are the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

² »Vanity of vanities,« said the Preacher, »vanity of vanities; all is vanity.«

⁵ The inhabitants of the earth pollute the earth. They transgress laws and violate statutes. They break the everlasting covenant. ⁶ A curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are found guilty. Therefore, those living on the earth are burned, and few men are left.

⁴ How long will our land be dry and the grass in every field be withered? Animals and birds are dying because of the wickedness of our people. These people say: »God does not see what we are doing.«

¹¹ »They made it a wasteland. It lies desolate before me. The whole land has become a desert, and no one cares.

⁵ Even deer in the fields give birth and abandon their young because there is no grass. ⁶ Wild donkeys stand on the bare hills. They sniff the wind like jackals. Their eyesight fails because they have no green plants.

³ Therefore the land will mourn. All the inhabitants are weak. The beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea will also perish.

¹⁸ »How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle wander about because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep suffer.

²² For we know that the whole creation groans and is in pain together until now.