Romans 8:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Romans 8:22-23

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only so, lout ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan Within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body . The present unwilling subjection of the whole visible creation to evil is here still more forcibly expressed, and spoken of as being what is known—a subject of experience to all who observe and think; and it is added that... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Romans 8:22

For we know - The sentiment of this verse is designed as an illustration of what had just been said.That the whole creation - Margin, “every creature.” This expression has been commonly understood as meaning the same as “the creature” in Romans 8:20-21. But I understand it as having a different signification; and as being used in the natural and usual signification of the word “creature,” or “creation.” It refers, as I suppose, to the whole animate creation; to all living beings; to the state... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Romans 8:22

Romans 8:22. For we know that the whole creation Ever since the first apostacy of our nature from God; groaneth Suffers a variety of miseries; and travaileth Συνωδινει , literally, is in the pains of childbirth, to be delivered from the burden of the curse; until now To this very hour, and so on to the time of deliverance. “According to some commentators, the words πασα η κτισις denote the whole creatures of God, animate and inanimate, which, as they were cursed for the sin of the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Romans 8:18-39

Christian confidence (8:18-39)Whatever sufferings believers may experience, they are of little significance when compared with the glory to be revealed on the day of final victory (18). On that day the physical creation, which from the time of Adam has suffered because of human sin (cf. Genesis 1:28-30; Genesis 3:17-18), will enter its full glory along with redeemed human life (19-22). All the effects of sin will be removed, and believers will be raised from the dead in imperishable spiritual... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Romans 8:22

groaneth = is groaning together. Greek. sustenazo . Only here. travaileth . . . together = travails together. Greek. sunodino. Only here. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Romans 8:22

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.The whole creation ... means all mankind, the word "creation" being the same as that used in all of these verses (see under Romans 8:19). Here the metaphor is that of the labor room in a hospital, only without modern anesthetics. Locke's paraphrase is,For we know that all mankind, all of them, groan together, and unto this day are in pain, as a woman in labor, to be delivered out of the uneasiness of this... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 8:19-23

Romans 8:19-23.— I must think, that it was quite to the Apostle's purpose in this place to point at the common calamities of mankind. Christians ought not to be uneasy if they are exposed to sufferings on account of religion; for this world is a state of suffering and distress, and all mankind are groaning under various pressures. That the Apostle in these verses does not mean only the Christian world or creation, seems evident; because first, that even the creature itself, or even the very... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Romans 8:22

Romans 8:22. The whole creation groaneth— How David groaned under the vanity of this life, may be seen Psa 89:47-48 which complaint may be met with in some sense and in some degree in every man's mouth: so that even those who have not the first fruits of the Spirit, have uneasy longings after immortality, or of something to make them happy, which this world cannot afford them. It is true, that to be in pangs like a woman in travail, the metaphor here used, sometimes only signifies being in... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Romans 8:22

22. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now—If for man's sake alone the earth was cursed, it cannot surprise us that it should share in his recovery. And if so, to represent it as sympathizing with man's miseries, and as looking forward to his complete redemption as the period of its own emancipation from its present sin-blighted condition, is a beautiful thought, and in harmony with the general teaching of Scripture on the subject. (See on :-). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 8:18-25

3. Our present sufferings and future glory 8:18-25Paul proceeded to expound on the thought that he introduced at the end of Romans 8:17. This passage gives a very wide perspective of God’s great plan of redemption, which is the heart of Paul’s theology. [Note: See Don N. Howell Jr., "The Center of Pauline Theology," Bibliotheca Sacra 151:601 (January-March 1994):50-70.] read more

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