Cross references
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
Romans 8:20 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 3:17–19 (18 votes) and Genesis 5:29 (14 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 3 to 2 Peter 3.
Which verses does Romans 8:20 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Genesis 3:17–1918 votes
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. …
- Genesis 5:2914 votes
And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
- Romans 8:2211 votes
We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.
- Jeremiah 12:410 votes
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
- Isaiah 24:5–68 votes
The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.
- Jeremiah 14:5–67 votes
Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass. Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
- Hosea 4:37 votes
Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
- Ecclesiastes 1:26 votes
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
- Genesis 6:135 votes
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
- Job 12:6–105 votes
The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands. But ask the animals, and they will instruct you; ask the birds of the air, and they will tell you. …
- Joel 1:185 votes
- Jeremiah 12:114 votes
They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
Which verses point to Romans 8:20?
The 10 strongest of 19.