Parallel Verses
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.
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
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.
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.
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 creation itself would also be set free from corrupting bondage in order to share the glorious freedom of God's children. 22 For we know that all the rest of creation has been groaning with the pains of childbirth up to the present time. 23 However, not only the creation, but we who have the first fruits of the Spirit also groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
Cross References
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will the land mourn and the vegetation of every field dry up? Because of the wickedness of those who live in it, animals and birds are swept away. For they say, "He does not see our future."
Jeremiah 12:11
They'll make it into a desolate place, and, desolate, it will cry out in mourning to me. The whole land will be desolate because no one takes it to heart.
Mark 16:15
Then he told them, "As you go into the entire world, proclaim the gospel to everyone.
Psalm 48:6
Trembling seized them there, pains like those of a woman in labor,
John 16:21
When a woman is in labor she has pain, because her time has come. Yet when she has given birth to her child, she doesn't remember the agony anymore because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.
Romans 8:20
because the creation has become subject to futility, though not by anything it did. The one who subjected it did so in the certainty
Colossians 1:23
However, you must remain firmly established and steadfast in the faith, without being moved from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
Revelation 12:2
She was pregnant and was crying out from her labor pains, the agony of giving birth.