Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
For [all] creation [Note: "Creation" here refers to the material heavens and earth, and is personified through verse 23] is eagerly waiting for the children of God to be revealed [i.e., in their glorious state].
New American Standard Bible
For the
King James Version
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Holman Bible
For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation
International Standard Version
For the creation is eagerly awaiting the revelation of God's children,
A Conservative Version
For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.
American Standard Version
For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.
Amplified
For [even the whole] creation [all nature] waits eagerly for the children of God to be revealed.
Anderson New Testament
For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the revelation of the sons of God.
Bible in Basic English
For the strong desire of every living thing is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.
Common New Testament
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the revealing of the sons of God.
Daniel Mace New Testament
mankind impatiently desire that the divine being would display himself to his creatures,
Darby Translation
For the anxious looking out of the creature expects the revelation of the sons of God:
Godbey New Testament
For the earnest expectation of the creature awaits the revelation of the sons of God.
Goodspeed New Testament
For creation is waiting with eager longing for the sons of God to be disclosed.
John Wesley New Testament
For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God.
Julia Smith Translation
For the anxious expectation of the creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God.
King James 2000
For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the eagerly expecting creation awaits eagerly the revelation of the sons of God.
Modern King James verseion
For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Also, the fervent desire of the creatures abideth looking when the sons of God shall appear;
Moffatt New Testament
Even the creation waits with eager longing for the sons of God to be revealed.
Montgomery New Testament
All nature even is waiting with eager longing for the unveiling of the vision of God's sons.
NET Bible
For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.
New Heart English Bible
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
Noyes New Testament
For the earnest expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Sawyer New Testament
For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons of God.
The Emphasized Bible
For, the eager outlook of creation, ardently awaiteth the revealing of the sons of God, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the children of God.
Twentieth Century New Testament
All Nature awaits with eager expectation the appearing of the Sons of God.
Webster
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
Weymouth New Testament
For all creation, gazing eagerly as if with outstretched neck, is waiting and longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God.
Williams New Testament
For all nature is expectantly waiting for the unveiling of the sons of God.
World English Bible
For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
Worrell New Testament
For the earnest longing of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.
Worsley New Testament
For the earnest expectation of the world is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God:
Youngs Literal Translation
for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God;
Themes
Adoption » Saints wait for final consummation of
Redemption » Who waits hopefully for redemption
Suffering » The sufferings of this present time
Topics
Interlinear
Devotionals
Devotionals about Romans 8:19
Devotionals containing Romans 8:19
References
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Easton
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 8:19
Images Romans 8:19
Prayers for Romans 8:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Glory That Is To Be Revealed
18 For I consider that our present sufferings do not deserve to be compared with the glory that will be revealed to us [i.e., in the future life]. 19 For [all] creation [Note: "Creation" here refers to the material heavens and earth, and is personified through verse 23] is eagerly waiting for the children of God to be revealed [i.e., in their glorious state]. 20 But God subjected the created world to aimless frustration [i.e., after the fall. See Gen. 3:17-18] --- it did not happen by its own choice. Yet there was hope
Cross References
Philippians 1:20
It is my eager expectation and hope that I will not have to be ashamed about anything, but that I will have the courage, [both] now and always, [to so live] that Christ will be exalted [i.e., honored] in my body, whether I live or die.
1 John 3:2
Dearly loved ones, we are God's children now, but it has not yet been revealed [to us] what we will be [in the future life, Luke 20:34-36]. But, we do know this, however, that when Jesus is revealed [i.e., at His second coming], we will be like Him [I Cor. 15:49], for we will see what He really looks like!
Matthew 25:31-46
"But when the Son of man comes [back] in [all] His splendor, accompanied by all the angels, then He will sit on His throne of splendor.
Acts 3:21
who must be received into heaven until [God's appointed] times when everything will be restored [to its intended purpose]. God had spoken about this through the proclamations of His holy prophets of long ago.
Romans 8:23
And not just the world, but even we [Christians] ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit [i.e., the first installment of our inheritance from God] also groan within us, eagerly waiting to be adopted as [God's] children, and receive back our bodies [i.e., in the resurrection].
2 Peter 3:11-13
Since all these things are [certain] to be destroyed, what kind of persons should you be, [if not like those] living holy lives, and in a godly manner,
Revelation 21:1-5
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, because the first heaven and the first earth [had] passed away, and there was no longer any ocean.