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 subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
Mark 16:15
He said to them, "Go into all the world, and proclaim the Good News to the whole creation.
Colossians 1:23
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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
A woman, when she gives birth, has pain, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she does not remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
Revelation 12:2
She was with child. She screamed out in pain, laboring to give birth.

General references

Genesis 7:21
All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
Leviticus 18:28
that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Leviticus 26:35
As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it did not have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.
Joel 1:18
How the animals groan. The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.