Romans 8:22

Tree of Life Version

For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers birth pains until now—

Cross References

Psalm 48:6

They saw, then they were astounded, they fled in terror.

Jeremiah 12:11

They made it a wasteland. It mourns before Me, desolate. The whole land will be laid waste, because no one takes it to heart.”

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will the land mourn and the grass of all the field wither? Because those living in it are evil, beasts and birds are swept away. For they said, “He cannot see our end.”

Leviticus 26:35

As long as it lies desolate it will have rest, that rest which it did not have from your Shabbatot, when you lived on it.

Mark 16:15

He told them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the Good News to every creature.

John 16:21

“When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the 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 the One who subjected it—in hope

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you continue in the faith, established and firm, not budging from the hope of the Good News that you have heard. This Good News has been proclaimed throughout all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.

Revelation 12:2

She is pregnant—crying out in birth pains, in agony to give birth.