Romans 8:22
Romans 8:22-25 The Message (MSG)
All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it’s not only around us; it’s within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We’re also feeling the birth pangs. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don’t see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.
Romans 8:22 King James Version (KJV)
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:22 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
Romans 8:22 New Century Version (NCV)
We know that everything God made has been waiting until now in pain, like a woman ready to give birth.
Romans 8:22 American Standard Version (ASV)
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:22 New International Version (Anglicised) (NIVUK)
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Romans 8:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.
Romans 8:22 Amplified Bible (AMP)
For we know that the whole creation has been moaning together as in the pains of childbirth until now. [Jer 12:4, 11]
Romans 8:22 New Living Translation (NLT)
For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.