The Creation

1 ^(A)In the beginning ^(B)God ^(C)created the heavens and the earth.

¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

¹⁹ For the ^(A)anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for ^(B)the revealing of the ^(C)sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation ^(D)was subjected to ^(E)futility, not willingly, but ^(F)because of Him who subjected it, ^[a]in hope ²¹ that ^(G)the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. ²² For we know that the whole creation ^(H)groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.