Romans 8:21

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

King James Version (1611)
Because the creature it selfe also shall bee deliuered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious libertie of the children of God.

King James Version
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

English Standard Version
that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

New American Standard Bible
that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

New Century Version
that everything God made would be set free from ruin to have the freedom and glory that belong to God's children.

Amplified Bible
that the creation itself will also be freed from its bondage to decay [and gain entrance] into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Legacy Standard Bible
that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Berean Standard Bible
that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Contemporary English Version
that creation would be set free from decay and would share in the glorious freedom of his children.

Complete Jewish Bible
that it too would be set free from its bondage to decay and would enjoy the freedom accompanying the glory that God's children will have.

Darby Translation
that the creature itself also shall be set free from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Easy-to-Read Version
That the creation would be made free from ruin—that everything God made would have the same freedom and glory that belong to God's children.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Because the creature also shall be deliuered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God.

George Lamsa Translation
Because man himself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Good News Translation
that creation itself would one day be set free from its slavery to decay and would share the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Lexham English Bible
that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Literal Translation
that also the creation will be freed from the slavery of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

American Standard Version
that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Bible in Basic English
That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.

Hebrew Names Version
that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

International Standard Version
that the creation itself would also be set free from slavery to decay in order to share the glorious freedom of God's children.

Etheridge Translation
that the creation herself also shall be made free from the servitude of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the sons of Aloha.

Murdock Translation
in the hope, that also the creation itself would be emancipated from the bondage of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the sons of God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the same creature shalbe made free from the bondage of corruptio, into the glorious libertie of ye sonnes of God.

English Revised Version
that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

World English Bible
that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
In hope that the creation itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Weymouth's New Testament
Yet there was always the hope that at last the Creation itself would also be set free from the thraldom of decay so as to enjoy the liberty that will attend the glory of the children of God.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for the ilke creature schal be delyuered fro seruage of corrupcioun in to liberte of the glorie of the sones of God.

Update Bible Version
that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the slavery of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Webster's Bible Translation
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

New English Translation
that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God's children.

New King James Version
because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

New Living Translation
the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay.

New Life Bible
Everything that has been made in the world will be set free from the power that can destroy. These will become free just as the children of God become free.

New Revised Standard
that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That, creation itself also, shall be freed - from the bondage of the decay into the freedom of the glory of the sons of God;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Revised Standard Version
because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For ye very creatures shalbe delivered from the bondage of corrupcion into the glorious lybertie of the sonnes of God.

Young's Literal Translation
that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the creature also shal be fre from the bondage of corrupcion, vnto the glorious libertye of the childre of God.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and therefore hope to be removed from this slavish condition of mortality to the free inheritance of divine glory.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Even creation longs for the day when all of God's kids will join it, free from death and decay.

Contextual Overview

¹⁸That's why I don't think there's any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what's coming next. Everything in creation is being more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all the creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment into the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the joyful anticipation deepens. ²²All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it's not only around us; it's within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We're also feeling the birth pangs. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don't see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Because: 2 Peter 3:13

into the glorious: Romans 8:19, Revelation 22:3-5

Reciprocal: Isaiah 24:5 - defiled John 8:34 - Whosoever Romans 3:5 - But if 1 Corinthians 15:42 - in corruption Hebrews 2:15 - subject 1 John 3:1 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 3:17
He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."

Genesis 6:5
God saw that human evil was out of control. People thought evil, imagined evil—evil, evil, evil from morning to night. God was sorry that he had made the human race in the first place; it broke his heart. God said, "I'll get rid of my ruined creation, make a clean sweep: people, animals, snakes and bugs, birds—the works. I'm sorry I made them."

Genesis 6:17
"I'm going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction.

Genesis 8:1
Then God turned his attention to Noah and all the wild animals and farm animals with him on the ship. God caused the wind to blow and the floodwaters began to go down. The underground springs were shut off, the windows of Heaven closed and the rain quit. Inch by inch the water lowered. After 150 days the worst was over.

Genesis 8:7
He sent out a raven; it flew back and forth waiting for the floodwaters to dry up. Then he sent a dove to check on the flood conditions, but it couldn't even find a place to perch—water still covered the Earth. Noah reached out and caught it, brought it back into the ship.

Genesis 8:10
He waited seven more days and sent out the dove again. It came back in the evening with a freshly picked olive leaf in its beak. Noah knew that the flood was about finished.

Genesis 8:15
God spoke to Noah: "Leave the ship, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives. And take all the animals with you, the whole menagerie of birds and mammals and crawling creatures, all that brimming prodigality of life, so they can reproduce and flourish on the Earth."

Genesis 8:22
For as long as Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night will never stop."

Psalms 58:3
The wicked crawl from the wrong side of the cradle; their first words out of the womb are lies. Poison, lethal rattlesnake poison, drips from their forked tongues— Deaf to threats, deaf to charm, decades of wax built up in their ears.

Ecclesiastes 7:20
There's not one totally good person on earth, Not one who is truly pure and sinless.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because the creature itself also,.... The phrase in hope, which stands in our version, at the end of the preceding verse, should be placed in the beginning of this, and be read in connection with Romans 8:19 being a parenthesis, thus: "the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God, in hope that the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption"; and so it is placed in some copies, and in the Syriac version: that is, "the Gentiles" earnestly wait and expect a larger number of converts among them, in hopes that ere long the whole Gentile world will be freed from

the bondage of corruption, under which it at present groaned; by which is meant, the bondage they were in, not only to their sinful lusts, but to Satan the god of this world; and particularly to their idols, by which they corrupted themselves, and to which they were enslaved: they hope for a deliverance from hence,

into the glorious liberty of the children of God; which designs either the liberty of grace the children of God have here; and which consists in a freedom from the dominion of sin and Satan, from the law and bondage of it, in the free use of Gospel ordinances, in liberty of access to God, and a freedom from the fear of death, and a glorious liberty it is; or the liberty of glory the saints shall enjoy in the other world, which will lies in a freedom from the prison of the flesh, from the body of sin and death, from all sorrows and afflictions, from all reproaches and persecutions, from the temptations of Satan, from doubts, fears, and unbelief, and in the full vision of God through Christ, and in a free conversation with angels and saints.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because - This is the ground of his hope, and this sustains him now. It is the purpose of God that deliverance shall be granted, and this supports the Christian amidst the trials to which he is subjected here. The hope is, that this same renewed man shall be delivered from all the toils, and cares, and sins of this state.

The creature itself - The very soul that is renewed; the ransomed man without essential change. It will be the same being, though purified; the same man, possessed of the same body and soul, though freed from all the corruptions of humanity, and elevated above all the degradations of the present condition. The idea is everywhere presented, that the identical person shall be admitted to heaven without essential change, 1Co 15:35-38, 1 Corinthians 15:42-44. That this is the hope of all Christians, see 2 Peter 3:13.

From the bondage of corruption - This does not differ materially from “vanity,” Romans 8:20. It implies that this state is not a willing state, or not a condition of choice, but is one of bondage or servitude (see Romans 7:15-24); and that it is a corrupt, imperfect, perishing condition. It is one that leads to sin, and temptation, and conflict and anxiety. It is a condition often which destroys the peace, mars the happiness, dims the hope, enfeebles the faith, and weakens the love of Christians, and this is called the bondage of corruption. It is also one in which temporal death has dominion, and in the bondage of which, believers as well as unbelievers shall be held. Yet from all this bondage the children of God shall be delivered.

The glorious liberty - Greek, The freedom of the glory of the children of God. This is,

(1) “Liberty.” It is freedom from the bondage under which the Christian groans. It will be freedom from sin; from corruption; from evil desires; from calamity; from death. The highest “freedom “in the universe is that which is enjoyed in heaven, where the redeemed are under the sovereignty and government of their king, but where they do that, and that only, which they desire. All is slavery but the service of God; all is bondage but that law which accords with the supreme wish of the soul, and where commands accord with the perfect desires of the heart.

(2) This is glorious liberty. It is encompassed with majesty; attended with honor; crowned with splendor. The heavenly world is often described as a state of glory; Note, Romans 2:10.

Of the children of God - That the children of God shall enjoy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 21. Because the creature — This and the preceding verse should be thus connected: in hope THAT (οτι) the creature itself also shall be delivered. The word φθορα denotes, very frequently, sinful corruption. So, 2 Peter 1:4: Corruption through lust, της εν επιθυμια φθορας. 2 Corinthians 11:3: Lest your minds should be corrupted. 1 Corinthians 15:33: Evil communications corrupt good manners. The sense, therefore, of the apostle in this place seems to be: the Gentile world shall, in time, be delivered from the bondage of their sinful corruption, i.e. the bondage of their lusts and vile affections; and be brought into such a noble liberty as the sons of God enjoy.