Verse 22

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

Referenced Verses

• 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.