Romans 8:22

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For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

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  • Jer 12:4 : 4 How long must the land be parched and the grass in every field be withered? How long must the animals and the birds die because of the wickedness of the people who live in this land? For these people boast,“God will not see what happens to us.”
  • Jer 12:11 : 11 They will lay it waste. It will lie parched and empty before me. The whole land will be laid waste. But no one living in it will pay any heed.
  • Mark 16:15 : 15 He said to them,“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
  • John 16:21 : 21 When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.
  • Rom 8:20 : 20 For the creation was subjected to futility– not willingly but because of God who subjected it– in hope
  • Col 1:23 : 23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
  • Ps 48:6 : 6 Look at them shake uncontrollably, like a woman writhing in childbirth.
  • Rev 12:2 : 2 She was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, struggling to give birth.

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    23Not only this, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

    24For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

    25But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

    26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how we should pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings.

    27And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes on behalf of the saints according to God’s will.

    28And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,

    29because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

  • Rom 8:16-21
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    16The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.

    17And if children, then heirs(namely, heirs of God and also fellow heirs with Christ)– if indeed we suffer with him so we may also be glorified with him.

    18For I consider that our present sufferings cannot even be compared to the coming glory that will be revealed to us.

    19For the creation eagerly waits for the revelation of the sons of God.

    20For the creation was subjected to futility– not willingly but because of God who subjected it– in hope

    21that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

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    17As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver and strains and cries out because of her labor pains, so were we because of you, O LORD.

    18We were pregnant, we strained, we gave birth, as it were, to wind. We cannot produce deliverance on the earth; people to populate the world are not born.

  • 2 Cor 5:2
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    2For in this earthly house we groan, because we desire to put on our heavenly dwelling,

  • 2 Cor 5:4-5
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    4For we groan while we are in this tent, since we are weighed down, because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

    5Now the one who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.

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    3Not only this, but we also rejoice in sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,

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    2She was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, struggling to give birth.

  • 2 Cor 4:8
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    8We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;

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    21When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

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    19My children– I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

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    16Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

    17For our momentary, light suffering is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison

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    6But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

    7And our hope for you is steadfast because we know that as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.

    8For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.

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    35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

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    12As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

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    8All these things are the beginning of birth pains.

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    2For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

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    4who comforts us in all our troubles so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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    24The people cry out,“We have heard reports about them! We have become helpless with fear! Anguish grips us, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby!

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    8Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

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    18By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

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    4For in fact when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we would suffer affliction, and so it has happened, as you well know.

  • Joel 1:18
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    18Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

  • Eph 2:10
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    10For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.

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    3So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

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    14For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

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    7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,

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    3For this reason my stomach churns; cramps overwhelm me like the contractions of a woman in labor. I am disturbed by what I hear, horrified by what I see.

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    2I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

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    8They panic– cramps and pain seize hold of them like those of a woman who is straining to give birth. They look at one another in astonishment; their faces are flushed red.

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    4As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.