Romans 8:22

⁴How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”

¹¹They have made it a desolation. It mourns to me, being desolate. The whole land is made desolate, because no one cares.

²¹A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

²³if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

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

¹⁵He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

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

²She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.