Romans 8:22
For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 26:35All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it.
Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.
Mark 16:15And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone.
Romans 8:20For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope
Revelation 12:2And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.
Matthew Henry on Romans 8:18-26
The Believer's Privileges. ( a. d. 58.) 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath… Read the whole commentary →