Romans 8:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

We know that the whole creation has been groaning together as it suffers together the pains of labor,

Cross References

Psalm 48:6

trembling took hold of them there, pains as of a woman in labor,

Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no one lays it to heart.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the wickedness of those who live in it, the animals and the birds are swept away, and because people said, “He is blind to our ways.”

Leviticus 26:35

As long as it lies desolate, it shall have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you were living on it.

Mark 16:15

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.

John 16:21

When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.

Romans 8:20

for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope

Colossians 1:23

provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a minister of this gospel.

Revelation 12:2

She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pangs, in the agony of giving birth.