Bible Cross References
the creature
Romans 8:22
For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth.
Genesis 3:17-19
17
And he said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you.
18
It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants.
19
You will have to work hard and sweat to make the soil produce anything, until you go back to the soil from which you were formed. You were made from soil, and you will become soil again."
Genesis 5:29
and said, "From the very ground on which the LORD put a curse, this child will bring us relief from all our hard work"; so he named him Noah.
Genesis 6:13
God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to all people. I will destroy them completely, because the world is full of their violent deeds.
Job 12:6-10
6
But thieves and godless people live in peace, though their only god is their own strength.
7
Even birds and animals have much they could teach you;
8
ask the creatures of earth and sea for their wisdom.
9
All of them know that the LORD's hand made them.
10
It is God who directs the lives of his creatures; everyone's life is in his power.
Isaiah 24:5
The people have defiled the earth by breaking God's laws and by violating the covenant he made to last forever.
Isaiah 24:6
So God has pronounced a curse on the earth. Its people are paying for what they have done. Fewer and fewer remain alive.
Jeremiah 12:4
How long will our land be dry, and the grass in every field be withered? Animals and birds are dying because of the wickedness of our people, people who say, 'God doesn't see what we are doing.' "
Jeremiah 12:11
They have made it a wasteland; it lies desolate before me. The whole land has become a desert, and no one cares.
Jeremiah 14:5
In the field the mother deer abandons her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Jeremiah 14:6
The wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals; their eyesight fails them because they have no food.
Hosea 4:3
And so the land will dry up, and everything that lives on it will die. All the animals and birds, and even the fish, will die."
Joel 1:18
The cattle are bellowing in distress because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep also suffer.