Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
The creature
General references
Bible References
The creature
Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groans and is in pain together until now.
Genesis 3:17
He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 5:29
He named him Noah. He said: He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground Jehovah has cursed.
Genesis 6:13
God said to Noah: I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am going to destroy them with the earth.
Job 12:6
The tents of marauders prosper and those who provoke God are secure in what God's hand brings them.
Isaiah 24:5
The inhabitants of the earth pollute the earth. They transgress laws and violate statutes. They break the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will our land be dry and the grass in every field be withered? Animals and birds are dying because of the wickedness of our people. These people say: God does not see what we are doing.
Jeremiah 14:5
Even deer in the fields give birth and abandon their young because there is no grass.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land will mourn. All the inhabitants are weak. The beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea will also perish.
Joel 1:18
How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle wander about because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep suffer.
General references
Genesis 7:21
Every living thing that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.