Romans 8:22

For we know that, all creation, is sighing together, and travailing-in-birth-throes together until the present,—

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21That, creation itself also, shall be freed—from the bondage of the decay into the freedom of the glory of the sons of God;

23And, not only so, but, we ourselves, also, who have the first-fruit of the Spirit— [we] even ourselves, within our own selves do sigh,—sonship ardently awaiting—the redeeming of our body;—

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:35All the days she lieth desolate, shall she keep sabbath,—the which she kept not as your sabbaths,—while ye dwelt thereupon.

Jeremiah 12:4How long, shall the land mourn, And, the herbage of the whole field, wither? For the wickedness of them that dwell therein, beast and bird, have perished, For say they, He will not see our latter end!

Mark 16:15and he said unto them—Go ye into all the world, and proclaim the glad-message, to the whole creation:

Romans 8:20For, unto vanity, hath creation been made subject—not by choice, but by reason of him that made it subject, in hope

Revelation 12:2and she was with child, and crieth out, being in pangs and in anguish 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 →

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