Romans 8:20
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20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,(A) in hope
Genesis 3:17-19
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17 To 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,’(A)
“Cursed(B) is the ground(C) because of you;
through painful toil(D) you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.(E)
18 It will produce thorns and thistles(F) for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.(G)
19 By the sweat of your brow(H)
you will eat your food(I)
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”(J)
Genesis 5:29
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29 He named him Noah[a](A) and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.(B)”
Footnotes
- Genesis 5:29 Noah sounds like the Hebrew for comfort.
Romans 8:22
New International Version
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning(A) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
New International Version
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”(A)
Joel 1:18
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Hosea 4:3
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Jeremiah 14:5-6
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Jeremiah 12:11
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Jeremiah 12:4
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Isaiah 24:5-6
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Genesis 6:13
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13 So 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 surely going to destroy(A) both them and the earth.(B)
Job 12:6-10
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6 The tents of marauders are undisturbed,(A)
and those who provoke God are secure(B)—
those God has in his hand.[a]
7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you,(C)
or the birds in the sky,(D) and they will tell you;(E)
8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
or let the fish in the sea inform you.
9 Which of all these does not know(F)
that the hand of the Lord has done this?(G)
10 In his hand is the life(H) of every creature
and the breath of all mankind.(I)
Footnotes
- Job 12:6 Or those whose god is in their own hand
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