Romans 8:22 “We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pain…”

Romans 8:22

We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Geneva Bible 1599

For we knowe that euery creature groneth with vs also, and trauaileth in paine together vnto this present.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.

Bible in Basic English

For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.

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Cross references

“the, etc”

Romans 8:20 Colossians 1:23 Mark 16:15

Romans 8:20 · BSB

For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

Colossians 1:23 · BSB

if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

Mark 16:15 · BSB

And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

“groaneth”

Jeremiah 12:11 John 16:21 Psalm 48:6 Revelation 12:2

Jeremiah 12:11 · BSB

They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

John 16:21 · BSB

A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

Psalm 48:6 · BSB

Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

Revelation 12:2 · BSB

She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.

Also

Jeremiah 12:4

Jeremiah 12:4 · BSB

How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

21that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

23Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

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