Romans 8:22

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Romans 8:22

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

The, etc

Romans 8:20

Mark 16:15

Colossians 1:23

Groaneth

General references

Bible References

The, etc

For the creation was subjected to frustration and futility, not willingly [because of some intentional fault on its part], but by the will of Him who subjected it, in hope

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

[and He will do this] if you continue in the faith, well-grounded and steadfast, and not shifting away from the [confident] hope [that is a result] of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which [gospel] I, Paul, was made a minister.

Groaneth

Panic seized them there,
And pain, as that of a woman in childbirth.

“They have made it a wasteland,
Desolate, it mourns before Me;
The whole land has been made a wasteland,
Because no man takes it to heart.

A woman, when she is in labor, has pain because her time [to give birth] has come; but when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of her joy that a child has come into the world.

She was with child (the Messiah) and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

General references

All living beings that moved on the earth perished—birds and cattle (domestic animals), [wild] animals, all things that swarm and crawl on the earth, and all mankind.

[do none of these things] so that the land will not vomit you out, should you defile it, as it has vomited out the nation which has been before you.

As long as it lies desolate, it will have rest, the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it.

How the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are bewildered and wander aimlessly
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep suffer.