Romans 8:22

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long is the land to mourn
And the vegetation of the countryside to wither?
For the wickedness of those who dwell in it,
Animals and birds have been snatched away,
Because men have said, “He will not see our latter ending.”

Jeremiah 12:11

“It has been made a desolation,
Desolate, it mourns before Me;
The whole land has been made desolate,
Because no man lays it to heart.

Mark 16:15

And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

Psalm 48:6

Panic seized them there,
Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.

John 16:21

Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

Romans 8:20

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope

Colossians 1:23

if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

Revelation 12:2

and she was with child; and she *cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

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Romans 8:22

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

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Romans 8:20

Mark 16:15

Colossians 1:23

Groaneth

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For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope

And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.

minister.

Groaneth

Panic seized them there,

Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.

“It has been made a desolation,
Desolate, it mourns before Me;
The whole land has been made desolate,
Because no man lays it to heart.

and she was with child; and she *cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

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All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;

so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you.

All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.

How the beasts groan!
The herds of cattle wander aimlessly
Because there is no pasture for them;
Even the flocks of sheep suffer.