Romans 8:20 Cross References

Romans 8:20

20: Against its will, everything on earth was subjected to God's curse.

Genesis 3:17

  1. And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat, I have placed a curse on the ground. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
  2. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.
  3. All your life you will sweat to produce food, until your dying day. Then you will return to the ground from which you came. For you were made from dust, and to the dust you will return."

Genesis 5:29

  1. Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, "He will bring us relief from the painful labor of farming this ground that the LORD has cursed."

Romans 8:22

  1. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

  1. "Everything is meaningless," says the Teacher, "utterly meaningless!"

Isaiah 24:5

  1. The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted the instructions of God, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant.
  2. Therefore, a curse consumes the earth and its people. They are left desolate, destroyed by fire. Few will be left alive.

Hosea 4:3

  1. That is why your land is not producing. It is filled with sadness, and all living things are becoming sick and dying. Even the animals, birds, and fish have begun to disappear.

Jeremiah 14:5

  1. The deer abandons her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
  2. The wild donkeys stand on the bare hills panting like thirsty jackals. They strain their eyes looking for grass to eat, but there is none to be found."

Joel 1:18

  1. How the animals moan with hunger! The cattle wander about confused because there is no pasture for them. The sheep bleat in misery.

Genesis 6:13

  1. So God said to Noah, "I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Yes, I will wipe them all from the face of the earth!

Jeremiah 12:4

  1. How long must this land weep? Even the grass in the fields has withered. The wild animals and birds have disappeared because of the evil in the land. Yet the people say, "The LORD won't do anything!"

Jeremiah 12:11

  1. They have made it an empty wasteland; I hear its mournful cry. The whole land is desolate, and no one even cares.

Job 12:6

  1. But even robbers are left in peace, and those who provoke God--and God has them in his power--live in safety!
  2. "Ask the animals, and they will teach you. Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.
  3. Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you. Let the fish of the sea speak to you.
  4. They all know that the LORD has done this.
  5. For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of all humanity.
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