Romans 8:22
For we know that all the rest of creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth up to the present time.
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land mourn and the vegetation of every field dry up? Because of the wickedness of those who live in it, animals and birds are swept away. For they say, "He does not see our future."
Jeremiah 12:11
They'll make it into a desolate place, and, desolate, it will cry out in mourning to me. The whole land will be desolate because no one takes it to heart.
Mark 16:15
Then he told them, "As you go into the entire world, proclaim the gospel to everyone.
Psalm 48:6
Trembling seized them there, pains like those of a woman in labor,
John 16:21
When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.
Romans 8:20
because the creation has become subject to futility, though not by anything it did. The one who subjected it did so in the certainty
Colossians 1:23
However, you must remain firmly established and steadfast in the faith, without being moved from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
Revelation 12:2
She was pregnant and was crying out from her labor pains, the agony of giving birth.