Romans 8:22

Romans 8:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
• New International Version (NIV)We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

Context of Romans 8:22

20For the creation was subjected to futility — not willingly, but because of him who subjected it — in the hope 21that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now. 23Not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits — we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies. 24Now in this hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?

Romans 8:22 word by word

οἴδαμεν γὰρ ὅτι πᾶσα ἡ κτίσις συστενάζει καὶ συνωδίνει ἄχρι τοῦ νῦν·Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Forγάρgar · forG1063
• we knowεἴδωeidō · to perceive: understandG1492
• thatὅτιhoti · that/since: thatG3754
• the wholeπᾶςpas · allG3956
• creationκτίσιςktisis · creationG2937
• groanethσυστενάζωsustenazō · to groan withG4959
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• travaileth in pain togetherσυνωδίνωsunōdinō · to labor togetherG4944
• untilἄχριachri achris · untilG891
• nowνῦνnun · nowG3568

Cross-references for Romans 8:22

• Romans 8:20For the creation was subjected to futility — not willingly, but because of him who subjected it — in the hope
• Mark 16:15Then he said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
• Colossians 1:23if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.
• Psalms 48:6Trembling seized them there, agony like that of a woman in labor,
• Jeremiah 12:11They have made it a desolation. It mourns, desolate, before me. All the land is desolate, but no one takes it to heart.
• John 16:21When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.
• Revelation 12:2She was pregnant and cried out in labor and agony as she was about to give birth.

Commentaries on Romans 8:22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22The whole creation groaneth and travaileth - If it be inquired how the Gentile world groaned and travailed in pain; let them who explain this of the fabric of the material world, tell us how that groans and travails? They must needs own it to be a borrowed and allusive phrase: but in the sense above given, the very literal construction may be admitted.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22For we know - The sentiment of this verse is designed as an illustration of what had just been said. That the whole creation - Margin, “every creature.” This expression has been commonly understood as meaning the same as “the creature” in Romans 8:20-21. But I understand it as having a different signification; and as being used in the natural and usual signification of the word “creature,” or “creation.” It refers, as I suppose, to the whole animate…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 18-25Verses 18-25 The sufferings of the saints strike no deeper than the things of time, last no longer than the present time, are light afflictions, and but for a moment. How vastly different are the sentence of the word and the sentiment of the world, concerning the sufferings of this present time! Indeed the whole creation seems to wait with earnest expectation for the period when the children of God shall be manifested in the glory prepared for them. There…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22the pains of childbirth: This is a metaphor for the eager waiting of creation (see also Matthew 24:8; Mark 13:8; John 16:20–22).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 19-2219-22. For, &c.--"The apostle, fired with the thought of the future glory of the saints, pours forth this splendid passage, in which he represents the whole creation groaning under its present degradation, and looking and longing for the revelation of this glory as the end and consummation of its existence" [Hodge]. the earnest expectation--(compare Php 1:20). of the creature--rather, "the creation." waiteth for the manifestation--"is waiting for the…Read the comment

Topics related to Romans 8:22

• Earth
• Holy Spirit
• Resurrection
• Suffering

In the dictionaries

• Allow
• Bondage
• Carnal
• Creature
• Enmity
• Fear
• Flesh
• Foreknow
• Glorify
• Indeed

Commentaries on Romans 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings