Romans 8:22

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now;

Cross References

Psalm 48:6

trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it a desolation; desolate, it mourns to me. The whole land is made desolate, but no man 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 dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because men said, “He will not see our latter end.”

Leviticus 26:35

As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, the rest which it had not in your sabbaths when you dwelt upon it.

Mark 16:15

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

John 16:21

When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.

Romans 8:20

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

Colossians 1:23

provided that you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Revelation 12:2

she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.