Romans 8:22

The English Standar Version

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

Cross References

Psalm 48:6

Trembling took hold of them there, anguish 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 man lays it to heart.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field wither? For the evil of those who dwell in it the beasts and the birds are swept away, because they said, "He will not see our latter end."

Leviticus 26:35

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

Mark 16:15

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

John 16:21

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Romans 8:20

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation[7] under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Revelation 12:2

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