Romans 8:20-22
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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 21 that[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)
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning(D) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Footnotes
- Romans 8:21 Or subjected it in hope. 21 For
Genesis 3:16-19
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16 To 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)”
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,’(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)
18 It will produce thorns and thistles(H) for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.(I)
19 By 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)
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.
Psalm 127:2
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Ecclesiastes 2:17
New International Version
Toil Is Meaningless
17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(A)
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