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

20Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, 21the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. 24We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it.

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 8:20Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope,
• Mark 16:15And then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.
• Colossians 1:23But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it.
• Psalms 48:6They were gripped with terror and writhed in pain like a woman in labor.
• Jeremiah 12:11They have made it an empty wasteland; I hear its mournful cry. The whole land is desolate, and no one even cares.
• John 16:21It will be like a woman suffering the pains of labor. When her child is born, her anguish gives way to joy because she has brought a new baby into the world.
• Revelation 12:2She was pregnant, and she cried out because of her labor pains and the agony of giving 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