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 made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by him who subjected it,
Mark 16:15
And he said to them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Colossians 1:23
If ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and are not removed from the hope of the gospel which ye have heard, which is preached to every creature that is under heaven, whereof I Paul am made a minister.

Groaneth

John 16:21
A woman when she is in travel, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembreth the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Revelation 12:2
And being with child she crieth, travailing in birth and pained to be delivered.