Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

The, etc

Romans 8:20
For the creation was not willingly subjected to vanity, but because of Him who subjected it on hope
Mark 16:15
And He said to them, Go into all the world, proclaim the gospel to all the creation.
Colossians 1:23
if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard and which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,

Groaneth

Psalm 48:6
Fear took hold on them there, and pain, like a woman in labor.
Jeremiah 12:11
One has made it a desolation, it mourns to Me. The whole land is made desolate because no man lays it to heart.
John 16:21
The woman has grief when she bears, because her hour has come. But when she brings forth the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a man is born into the world.
Revelation 12:2
and having a babe in womb, she cries, being in travail, having been distressed to bear.

General references

Genesis 7:21
And all flesh that moved upon the face of the earth died, of birds, of cattle, of animal, and of every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth; and every man,
Leviticus 18:28
You shall not do these so that the land may not spew you out also when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.
Leviticus 26:35
As long as it lies waste it shall rest, because it did not rest in your sabbaths when you lived on it.
Joel 1:18
How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are troubled because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are destroyed.