Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.
Darby Translation
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 of the desolation it shall rest, [the days in] which it did not rest on your sabbaths, when ye dwelt therein.
Jeremiah 12:4How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of all the fields wither? Because of the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts and the birds perish; for they say, He will not see our end.
Mark 16:15And he said to them, Go into all the world, and preach the glad tidings to all the creation.
Romans 8:20for the creature has been made subject to vanity, not of its will, but by reason of him who has subjected [the same], in hope
Revelation 12:2and being with child she cried, [being] in travail, and in pain to bring forth.
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 →