Romans 8:22

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

Jeremiah 12:4

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."

Jeremiah 12:11

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

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

Psalm 48:6

Look at them shake uncontrollably, like a woman writhing in childbirth.

John 16:21

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.

Romans 8:20

For the creation was subjected to futility -- not willingly but because of God who subjected it -- in hope

Colossians 1:23

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.

Revelation 12:2

She was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, struggling to give birth.

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Romans 8:22

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

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Romans 8:20

Mark 16:15

Colossians 1:23

Groaneth

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For the creation was subjected to futility -- not willingly but because of God who subjected it -- in hope

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

Groaneth

Look at them shake uncontrollably, like a woman writhing in childbirth.

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.

She was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, struggling to give birth.

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And all living things that moved on the earth died, including the birds, domestic animals, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all humankind.

So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.