Romans 8:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. ”

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

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 unde...
Romans 8:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and (c) travaileth in pain together until now. (c) By this word is meant not only exceeding sorrow, but also the fruit that follows from it.
Romans 8:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Birth-Pangs of Immortality. Romans 8:18 . These present sufferings are light beyond comparison, in view of the glory awaiting us at the coming revelation. The destined glory is hidden under a...
Romans 8:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

groaneth . is groaning together. Greek. sustenazo . Only here. travaileth... together . travails together. Greek. sunodino. Only here.
Romans 8:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

22. For we know, etc. He repeats the same sentiment, that he might pass over to us, though what is now said has the effect and the form of a conclusion; for as creatures are subject to cor...
Romans 8:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. The whole creation groaneth and travaileth - If it be inquired how the Gentile world groaned and travailed in p...
Romans 8:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The New Life in Cheist in relation to God and the Spirit It was shown in Romans 5:12 . that condemnation for the guilt of sin is done away by justification through faith in Christ. The question...
Romans 8:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(18-25) The mention of “suffering” and of “glory” recalls the Apostle to a sense of his own position — what he had to go through, and what was the hope that he had to animate and encourage him. A viv...
Romans 8:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 18 HOLINESS BY THE SPIRIT, AND THE GLORIES THAT SHALL FOLLOW Romans 8:12-25 Now the Apostle goes on to develop these noble premisses into conclusions. How true to himself, and to his I...
Romans 8:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hoping for the Completed Redemption Romans 8:18-30 Creation groans for freedom from the serpent's trail. Like a captive maiden she sighs to be delivered from the curse which sin has brought upo...
Romans 8:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The opening sentences of this chapter show a remarkable contrast with the previous chapter. From the fearful sense of condemnation we pass into the consciousness of no condemnation. Having shown the...
Romans 8:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (19) For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the mani...
Romans 8:22 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE ‘For we know.’ Romans 8:22 St. Paul was no mean man. If ever a strong man lived, that man was St. Paul. And, more than that, he was a man who had sacrificed a great deal...
Romans 8:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For we know that the whole creation groaneth ,.... As a woman with child, ready to bring forth: for it is added, and travaileth in pain together until now ; regeneration is owing to the grace of G...
Romans 8:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Ver. 22. The whole creation groaneth ] Even the very heavens are not without their feebleness and the manif...
Romans 8:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 childb...
Romans 8:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Deliverance Simply by God's Truth We come now, in the first four verses here, to the deliverance itself. Is this to be by means of experience? A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decide...
Romans 8:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Believer's Privileges. A. D. 58. 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint...
Romans 8:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

If here again the heavens and the earth, with what is therein, be understood, then the apostle further enlargeth upon their present state and condition; before they waited and expected deliverance, n...
Romans 8:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Whole Of Creation Is Groaning In Expectation Of Its Redemption. And God's People Also Groan With It, As Does The Spirit Of God Himself On Our Behalf (8:18-27). In spite of the division necessa...
Romans 8:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Romans 8:19 . Expectation .—In the original a highly figurative word. Hope stands with head erect, and with eyes fixed towards the point from which the blessing is expected to com...
Romans 8:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Romans 8:18-22 The Groans of Creation. I. In trying to understand the several voices which make up this chorus of expectation, we must commence with the dumb companion of our hope, the physical c...
Romans 8:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This precious chapter reminds us of the description of the land of Havilah, «where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good.» Romans 8:1 . There is therefore now no condemnation to them wh...
Romans 8:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot...
Romans 8:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. The expectation of the creature The Greek for “expectation” is one of those admirable words which t...
Romans 8:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Romans 8:1-45 ( c ) The blessed condition and assured hope of such as are in Christ Jesus. The summary of the contents of this chapter, which follows the Exposition, may be ref...
Romans 8:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Comfort in the Manifold Afflictions of this Life. The sighing of creation:
Romans 8:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Colossians 1:23 ; Jeremiah 12:11 ; John 16:21 ; Mark 16:15 ; Psalms 48:6 ; Revelation 12:2 ; Romans 8:20
Romans 8:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For the whole creation groaneth together — With joint groans, as it were with one voice. And travaileth — Literally, is in the pains of childbirth, to be delivered of the burden of the curse. Until...

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

Romans 8:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Romans 8:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 8:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Romans 8:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 8:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Romans 8:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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

Romans 8:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 8:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Romans 8:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Romans 8:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Romans 8:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Romans 8:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Romans 8:22 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Romans 8:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Romans 8:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Romans 8:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 8:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 8:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Romans 8:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Romans 8:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Romans 8:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Romans 8:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Romans 8:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Romans 8:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Romans 8:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Romans 8:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Romans 8:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Romans 8:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 8:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes