22 For we know that (A)the whole creation (B)has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

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11 They have made it a desolation;
    desolate, (A)it mourns to me.
The whole land is made desolate,
    (B)but no man lays it to heart.

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(A)How long will the land mourn
    and the grass of every field wither?
(B)For the evil of those who dwell in it
    (C)the beasts and the birds are swept away,
    because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”

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21 (A)When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

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23 (A)if indeed you continue in the faith, (B)stable and steadfast, not shifting from (C)the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed (D)in all creation[a] under heaven, (E)and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 1:23 Or to every creature

15 And he said to them, (A)“Go into all the world and (B)proclaim the gospel to (C)the whole creation.

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(A)Trembling took hold of them there,
    anguish (B)as of a woman in labor.

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20 For the creation (A)was subjected to futility, not willingly, but (B)because of him who subjected it, in hope

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She was pregnant and (A)was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.

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