Romans 8:22

For we know that the whole of Creation is groaning together in the pains of childbirth until this hour.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21Yet there was always the hope that at last the Creation itself would also be set free from the thraldom of decay so as to enjoy the liberty that will attend the glory of the children of God.

23And more than that, we ourselves, though we possess the Spirit as a foretaste and pledge of the glorious future, yet we ourselves inwardly sigh, as we wait and long for open recognition as sons through the deliverance of our bodies.

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Cross References

Mark 16:15Then He said to them, "Go the whole world over, and proclaim the Good News to all mankind.

Romans 8:20For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it).

Revelation 12:2and she was crying out in the pains 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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