Romans 8:22

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For we know that the entire created world moans in painful anguish [i.e., as a woman in childbirth] until this present moment.

Cross References

Mark 16:15

Then He said to them, “You [men] go into the entire world and preach the good news to every person.

John 16:21

A woman has pain when giving birth because her time has come. But when the child is born, she does not remember the intense suffering because she is so happy over the child being born into the world.

Romans 8:20

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

Colossians 1:23

[This will happen] if you continue in the faith [Note: This means either “continue to observe God’s teaching” or, “continue to believe”], firmly grounded and established, and not moved away from the hope offered by the Gospel message, which you have heard and which was preached to people throughout the entire created world under heaven. I, Paul, was made a minister of this Gospel.

Revelation 12:2

She was pregnant, and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.