Romans 8:19-21

Future Glory

¹⁹ For the creation waits with eager longing for _o the revealing of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation _p was subjected to futility, not willingly, but _q because of him who subjected it, in hope ²¹ that _r the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

1. Cross References
   1 Peter 4:13
   But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
   1 Peter 5:1
   So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
   1 John 3:2
   Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
   Romans 2:7
   To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
   
2. Cross References
   Genesis 3:18 - 19
   Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
   Ecclesiastes 1:2
   Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 3:17
   And to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life.
   
4. Cross References
   Acts 3:21
   Whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.