Verse 22

For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 12:4 : 4 How long will the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds are consumed, because they said, 'He will not see our final end.'
  • Jer 12:11 : 11 They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart.
  • Mark 16:15 : 15 And he said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
  • John 16:21 : 21 A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come: but as soon as she has delivered the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a man has been born into the world.
  • Rom 8:20 : 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope.
  • Col 1:23 : 23 If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature under heaven; of which I, Paul, am made a minister;
  • Ps 48:6 : 6 Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in labor.
  • Rev 12:2 : 2 And she was with child, and she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.