²² We know that the whole creation has been groaning^(A) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

²¹ A woman giving birth to a child has pain^(A) because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.

²³ if you continue^(A) in your faith, established^(B) and firm, and do not move from the hope^(C) held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven,^(D) and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.^(E)

²⁰ For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it,^(A) in hope

¹⁵ He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.^(A)

² She was pregnant and cried out in pain^(A) as she was about to give birth.