Romans 8:22

We know, indeed, that all nature alike has been groaning in the pains of labor to this very hour.

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For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

In Context

21yet not without the hope that some day nature, also, will be set free from enslavement to decay, and will attain to the freedom which will mark the glory of the children of God.

23And not nature only; but we ourselves also, though we have already a first gift of the Spirit – we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we eagerly await our full adoption as sons – the redemption of our bodies.

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Cross References

Mark 16:15Then he said to them, “Go into all the world, and proclaim the good news to all creation.

Romans 8:20For nature was made subject to imperfection – not by its own choice, but owing to him who made it so –

Revelation 12:2She was pregnant; and she is crying out in the pain and agony 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 →

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