Romans 8:19-22

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. ²² For we know that _s the whole creation _t has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

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.
   
5. Cross References
   Mark 16:15
   And he said to them, "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
   
6. Cross References
   Jeremiah 12:4
   How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the evil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because they said, "He will not see our latter end.
   Jeremiah 12:11
   They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man lays it to heart.