Romans 8:22

New International Version

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Cross References

Psalm 48:6

Trembling seized them there, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 12:11

It will be made a wasteland, parched and desolate before me; the whole land will be laid waste because there is no one who cares.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will the land lie parched and the grass in every field be withered? Because those who live in it are wicked, the animals and birds have perished. Moreover, the people are saying, “He will not see what happens to us.”

Leviticus 26:35

All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

Mark 16:15

He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

John 16:21

A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.

Romans 8:20

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope

Colossians 1:23

if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

Revelation 12:2

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