Romans 8:22
We know that all creation groans with longing, suffering birth-pains even up till now.
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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 26:35The whole time it's abandoned the land will observe the Sabbaths of rest that it wasn't able to do while you were living there.
Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land have to mourn and the grass in every field be dried up because of the evil of the people who live there? The animals and birds have died out because the people have said, “He doesn't know what's going to happen to us.”
Mark 16:15Then he told them, “Go to the whole world, and announce the good news to everyone.
Romans 8:20For God allowed the purpose of creation to be frustrated.
Revelation 12:2She was pregnant, and she cried out because of her labor pains, groaning as she was giving birth.
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 →