Cross references

Romans 8:22

We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until the present time.

Romans 8:22 BSB

Romans 8:22 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 12:4 (14 votes) and Jeremiah 12:11 (10 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Genesis 3 to Revelation 12.

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Which verses does Romans 8:22 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

  2. They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

  3. John 16:218 votes

    A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

  4. For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope

  5. if indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

  6. And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.

  7. Psalm 48:60 votes

    Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

  8. She was pregnant and crying out in the pain and agony of giving birth.

Which verses point to Romans 8:22?

The 10 strongest of 21.