Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
For we know that the entire created world moans in painful anguish [i.e., as a woman in childbirth] until this present moment.
New American Standard Bible
For we know that the whole creation
King James Version
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Holman Bible
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains
International Standard Version
For we know that all the rest of creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth up to the present time.
A Conservative Version
For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing together until now.
American Standard Version
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Amplified
For we know that the whole creation has been moaning together as in the pains of childbirth until now.
Anderson New Testament
For we know that every creature groans, and is in pain together, till now:
Bible in Basic English
For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.
Common New Testament
We know that the whole creation has been groaning in birth pangs together until now.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for we know that the whole creation groans, and labours with general pain even to this day.
Darby Translation
For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.
Godbey New Testament
For we know that all creation groans together and travails together until now;
Goodspeed New Testament
We know that all creation has been groaning in agony together until now.
John Wesley New Testament
For we know that the whole creation groaneth together and travaileth together until now.
Julia Smith Translation
For we know that all creation groans together and travails together until now.
King James 2000
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers agony together until now.
Modern King James verseion
And we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For we know that every creature groaneth with us also, and travaileth in pain even unto this time.
Moffatt New Testament
To this day, we know, the entire creation sighs and throbs with pain;
Montgomery New Testament
For we know that all nature has been groaning and travailing together until this hour.
NET Bible
For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.
New Heart English Bible
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
Noyes New Testament
For we know that the whole creation is together groaning and suffering the pains of labor, up to this time;
Sawyer New Testament
For we know that all the creation groans and is in pain till now;
The Emphasized Bible
For we know that, all creation, is sighing together, and travailing-in-birth-throes together until the present, -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For we know that the whole creation groaneth together and travaileth in birth to this moment.
Twentieth Century New Testament
We know, indeed, that all Nature alike has been groaning in the pains of labor to this very hour.
Webster
For we know that the whole creation groaneth, and travaileth in pain together until now:
Weymouth New Testament
For we know that the whole of Creation is groaning together in the pains of childbirth until this hour.
Williams New Testament
Yes, we know that all nature has gone on groaning in agony together till the present moment.
World English Bible
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
Worrell New Testament
For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing in pain together until now;
Worsley New Testament
For we know that the whole world groaneth, and doth as it were travail in pain together even to this day.
Youngs Literal Translation
for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.
Themes
Creation » Groaneth because of sin
Distress » Trouble, borrowing » Pain
Redemption » Who waits hopefully for redemption
Topics
Interlinear
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 8:22
Images Romans 8:22
Prayers for Romans 8:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Two-Stage Healing
21 that the created world itself would be freed from its slavery to corrupting influences [i.e., produced by the fall] and receive the glorious freedom which belongs to God's children. 22 For we know that the entire created world moans in painful anguish [i.e., as a woman in childbirth] until this present moment. 23 And not just the world, but even we [Christians] ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit [i.e., the first installment of our inheritance from God] also groan within us, eagerly waiting to be adopted as [God's] children, and receive back our bodies [i.e., in the resurrection].
Cross References
Mark 16:15
Then He said to them, "You [men] go into the entire world and preach the good news to every person.
John 16:21
A woman has pain when giving birth because her time has come. But when the child is born, she does not remember the intense suffering because she is so happy over the child being born into the world.
Romans 8:20
But God subjected the created world to aimless frustration [i.e., after the fall. See Gen. 3:17-18] --- it did not happen by its own choice. Yet there was hope
Colossians 1:23
[This will happen] if you continue in the faith [Note: This means either "continue to observe God's teaching" or, "continue to believe"], firmly grounded and established, and not moved away from the hope offered by the Gospel message, which you have heard and which was preached to people throughout the entire created world under heaven. I, Paul, was made a minister of this Gospel.
Revelation 12:2
She was pregnant, and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.