Romans 8:22

A Conservative Version

For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing together until now.

Cross References

Jeremiah 12:4

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds, because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

John 16:21

When a woman brings forth she has pain because her hour has come. But when she has given birth to the child she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a man was born into the world.

Romans 8:20

For the creation was made subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope.

Colossians 1:23

If ye truly continue in the faith, founded, and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good-news that ye heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a helper.

Revelation 12:2

And having in her womb, she cried out, suffering birth pains, and suffering to give birth.

Mark 16:15

And he said to them, Having gone into all the world, preach ye the good-news to the whole creation.

Psalm 48:6

Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

Leviticus 26:35

As long as it lays desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.