Romans 8:22

New Century Version

We know that everything God made has been waiting until now in pain, like a woman ready to give birth.

Cross References

Psalm 48:6

Fear took hold of them; they hurt like a woman having a baby.

Jeremiah 12:11

They have turned my field into a desert that is wilted and dead. The whole country is an empty desert, because no one who lives there cares.

Jeremiah 12:4

How much longer will the land stay dried up and the grass in every field be dead? The animals and birds in the land have died, because the people are evil. Yes, they are even saying, “God does not see what happens to us.”

Leviticus 26:35

During the time the land is empty, it will have the rest you should have given it while you lived in it.

Mark 16:15

Jesus said to his followers, “Go everywhere in the world, and tell the Good News to everyone.

John 16:21

When a woman gives birth to a baby, she has pain, because her time has come. But when her baby is born, she forgets the pain, because she is so happy that a child has been born into the world.

Romans 8:20

Everything God made was changed to become useless, not by its own wish but because God wanted it and because all along there was this hope:

Colossians 1:23

This will happen if you continue strong and sure in your faith. You must not be moved away from the hope brought to you by the Good News that you heard. That same Good News has been told to everyone in the world, and I, Paul, help in preaching that Good News.

Revelation 12:2

She was pregnant and cried out with pain, because she was about to give birth.