Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
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Romans 8:20
For the creation was made subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope.
Mark 16:15
And he said to them, Having gone into all the world, preach ye the good-news to the whole creation.
Colossians 1:23
If ye truly continue in the faith, founded, and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the good-news that ye heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I Paul became a helper.
Groaneth
Psalm 48:6
Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 12:11
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.
John 16:21
When a woman brings forth she has pain because her hour has come. But when she has given birth to the child she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a man was born into the world.
Revelation 12:2
And having in her womb, she cried out, suffering birth pains, and suffering to give birth.
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Genesis 7:21
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, from birds, to cattle, to beasts, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man.
Leviticus 18:28
that the land not vomit you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Leviticus 26:35
As long as it lays desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your Sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Joel 1:18
How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture, yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.