²² For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

⁴ How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

¹¹ They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

¹⁵ And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

⁶ Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.

²¹ A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.

²⁰ For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope

²³ if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.

² and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.