Verse 22

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

Referenced Verses

• 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.