Romans 8:22

For we know that all nature has been groaning and travailing together until this hour.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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 itself also will be freed from the thraldom of decay, into the freedom which belongs to the glory of the children of God.

23And not only that, we ourselves, although we are grasping the first- fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we are waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

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Cross References

Mark 16:15And he said to them. "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

Romans 8:20For nature was subjected to imperfection, not by its own will, but by the will of Him who thus made it subject -

Revelation 12:2She was with child; and she cried out, travailing in birth, in anguish to be delivered.

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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