Creation Waits in Hope

Life, Adoption, Hope, and Inseparable Love · Romans 8

Story guide: Disclosed visual essay. Present suffering cannot compare with coming glory. Creation groans like labor and waits for freedom from decay; believers likewise wait in hope for bodily redemption with patient endurance.

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18For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory that is to be revealed to us.

19For the creation waits with eager expectation for the revealing of the sons of God.

20For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected it, in hope

21because creation itself also will be set free from slavery to decay into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

22For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers labor pains together until now.

23And not only that, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting adoption as sons—the redemption of our bodies.

24For in hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?

25But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patient endurance.

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