Romans 8:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. ”

• Romans 8:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Because - This is the ground of his hope, and this sustains him now. It is the purpose of God that deliverance shall be granted, and this supports the Christian amidst the trials to which he is s...

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• Romans 8:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the (b) bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. (b) From the corruption which they are now subject to, they w...

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• Romans 8:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Birth-Pangs of Immortality. Romans 8:18 . These present sufferings are light beyond comparison, in view of the glory awaiting us at the coming revelation. The destined glory is hidden under a...

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• Romans 8:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  delivered . set free, as in Romans 8:2 . corruption . Greek. phthora. Here, 1Co 15:42, 1 Corinthians 15:50 ; Galatians 1:6 ; Galatians 1:8 ; Colossians 2:22 . 2Pe 1:4. 2 Peter 2:12 ; 2 Pe...

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• Romans 8:21 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  21. Because the creation itself, etc. He shows how the creation has in hope been made subject to vanity; that is, inasmuch as it shall some time be made free, according to what Isaiah test...

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• Romans 8:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Because the creature - This and the preceding verse should be thus...

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• Romans 8:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Romans 8:19-23 .— I must think, that it was quite to the Apostle's purpose in this place to point at the common calamities of mankind. Christians ought not to be uneasy if they are exposed to su...

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• Romans 8:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Because, х dia ( G1223 ) ton ( G3588 ) hupotax...

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• Romans 8:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The New Life in Cheist in relation to God and the Spirit It was shown in Romans 5:12 . that condemnation for the guilt of sin is done away by justification through faith in Christ. The question...

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• Romans 8:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (18-25) The mention of “suffering” and of “glory” recalls the Apostle to a sense of his own position — what he had to go through, and what was the hope that he had to animate and encourage him. A viv...

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• Romans 8:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 18 HOLINESS BY THE SPIRIT, AND THE GLORIES THAT SHALL FOLLOW Romans 8:12-25 Now the Apostle goes on to develop these noble premisses into conclusions. How true to himself, and to his I...

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• Romans 8:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Hoping for the Completed Redemption Romans 8:18-30 Creation groans for freedom from the serpent's trail. Like a captive maiden she sighs to be delivered from the curse which sin has brought upo...

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• Romans 8:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The opening sentences of this chapter show a remarkable contrast with the previous chapter. From the fearful sense of condemnation we pass into the consciousness of no condemnation. Having shown the...

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• Romans 8:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (19) For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the mani...

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• Romans 8:21 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE HOPE OF CREATION ‘For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him Who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from...

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• Romans 8:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Because the creature itself also ,.... The phrase in hope, which stands in our version, at the end of the preceding verse, should be placed in the beginning of this, and be read in connection with...

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• Romans 8:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Ver. 21. Because the creature itself ] See Mr Wilcox's discour...

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• Romans 8:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For the creature was made subject to vanity Mankind in general, and the whole visible creation, lost their original beauty, glory, and felicity; a sad change passed on man, and his place of abode;...

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• Romans 8:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Deliverance Simply by God's Truth We come now, in the first four verses here, to the deliverance itself. Is this to be by means of experience? A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decide...

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• Romans 8:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Believer's Privileges. A. D.  58.       17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint...

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• Romans 8:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  If this verse be understood of the heavens and the earth, and the things therein, the meaning is, that the creatures, in their kind, and according to their capacity, shall be partakers of that lib...

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• Romans 8:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Whole Of Creation Is Groaning In Expectation Of Its Redemption. And God's People Also Groan With It, As Does The Spirit Of God Himself On Our Behalf (8:18-27). In spite of the division necessa...

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• Romans 8:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Romans 8:19 . Expectation .—In the original a highly figurative word. Hope stands with head erect, and with eyes fixed towards the point from which the blessing is expected to com...

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• Romans 8:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Romans 8:18-22 The Groans of Creation. I. In trying to understand the several voices which make up this chorus of expectation, we must commence with the dumb companion of our hope, the physical c...

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• Romans 8:21 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  This precious chapter reminds us of the description of the land of Havilah, «where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good.» Romans 8:1 . There is therefore now no condemnation to them wh...

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• Romans 8:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot...

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• Romans 8:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. The expectation of the creature The Greek for “expectation” is one of those admirable words which t...

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• Romans 8:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Romans 8:1-45 ( c ) The blessed condition and assured hope of such as are in Christ Jesus. The summary of the contents of this chapter, which follows the Exposition, may be ref...

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• Romans 8:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Comfort in the Manifold Afflictions of this Life. The sighing of creation:

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• Romans 8:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Peter 3:13 ; Revelation 22:3-5 ; Romans 8:19

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• Romans 8:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The creation itself shall be delivered — Destruction is not deliverance: therefore whatsoever is destroyed, or ceases to be, is not delivered at all. Will, then, any part of the creation be destroy...

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