Creation Groans

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

The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

All these are the beginning of birth pains.

And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.