Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
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- Jer 12:4 : 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
- Jer 12:11 : 11 They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
- Mark 16:15 : 15 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
- John 16:21 : 21 A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
- Rom 8:20 : 20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
- Col 1:23 : 23 if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
- Ps 48:6 : 6 Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
- Rev 12:2 : 2 She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
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24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
25 But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.
26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.
27 He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.
28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
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16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;
17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
19 For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
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17 Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.
18 We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
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2 For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven;
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4 For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened; not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
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2 She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
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19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you--
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16 Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
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6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
7 Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.
8 For we don't desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
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12 So then death works in us, but life in you.
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8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
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2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
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8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.
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4 For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
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18 How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
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10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
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14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.
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7 All sheep and cattle, yes, and the animals of the field,
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2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
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9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.
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4 so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.