Romans 8:20-22

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²⁰For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,^(A) in hope ²¹that^[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)

²²We know that the whole creation has been groaning^(D) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

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Romans 8:21 Or subjected it in hope. ²¹For

Genesis 3:16-19

New International Version

¹⁶To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.^(A)
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.^(B)”

¹⁷To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’^(C)

“Cursed^(D) is the ground^(E) because of you;
    through painful toil^(F) you will eat food from it
    all the days of your life.^(G)
¹⁸It will produce thorns and thistles^(H) for you,
    and you will eat the plants of the field.^(I)
¹⁹By the sweat of your brow^(J)
    you will eat your food^(K)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”^(L)