Romans 8:18-20

Expanded Bible

Our Future Glory

¹⁸ [^LFor I consider that] The sufferings we have now are nothing compared to the great glory that will be ·shown [revealed] to us. ¹⁹ ·Everything God made [^LThe creation] is waiting with ·excitement [eager expectation] for ·God to show his children’s glory completely [the revelation of the children/sons of God]. ²⁰ ·Everything God made [^LFor the creation] was ·changed to become useless [subjected to futility/meaninglessness; Gen. 3; Eccl. 1:2], not by its own wish but because God ·wanted [^Lsubjected] it ·and because all along there was this hope [yet with the hope…]: