Romans 8:22

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“We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.”

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BSBPD

“We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Romans 8:22 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:35As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.
  2. Psalms 48:6Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.
  3. Jeremiah 12:4How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
  4. Jeremiah 12:11They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
  5. Mark 16:15And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
  6. John 16:21A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
  7. Romans 8:20For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope
  8. Colossians 1:23if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
  9. Revelation 12:2She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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