"For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. {the...: or, every creature}" — Romans 8:22

Romans 8:22 · KJV

“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. {the...: or, every creature}”

— Romans 8:22

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Verse 23

And not only {they}, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, {to wit}, the redemption of our body.

Romans 8 — Context

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected {the same} in hope,

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. {the...: or, every creature}

And not only {they}, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, {to wit}, the redemption of our body.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

Cross References

Jeremiah 12:4

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

Jeremiah 12:11

They have made it desolate, {and being} desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth {it} to heart.

John 16:21

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Colossians 1:23

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and {be} not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, {and} which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

Romans 8:20

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected {the same} in hope,

Mark 16:15

And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

Revelation 12:2

And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

Psalms 48:6

Fear took hold upon them there, {and} pain, as of a woman in travail.