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 has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected [it], in hope

And he said to them, "Go into all the world [and] preach the gospel to all creation.

if indeed you remain in the faith, established and steadfast and not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Groaneth

Trembling seized them there-- pain as of a woman in labor.

They have made it a desolation. Desolate, it mourns to me. All the land is made desolate, but there is no person taking [it] to heart.

A woman, when she gives birth, experiences pain because her hour has come. But when [her] child is born, she no longer remembers the affliction, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

and {who was pregnant} and was crying out [because she] was having birth pains, and was in torment to give birth.

General references

And every living thing that moved on the earth perished--the birds, and the domesticated animals, and the wild animals, and everything that swarmed on the earth, and all humankind.

so that the land will not vomit you out when you make it unclean [just] as it vomited out the nation that [was] {before you}.

All the days of its lying desolate it shall rest [for the time] that it had not rested during your Sabbaths while you were living on it.

How [the] beasts groan; the herds of cattle wander around because there is no pasture for them; [the] flocks of sheep are in distress.