²² For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.

⁴ How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.

¹¹ They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

¹⁵ And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone.

⁶ Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.

²¹ When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.

²⁰ For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope

²³ If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

² And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.