24 Bible Verses about childbearing

But she will be kept safe through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sensibleness.

To the woman He said, I will greatly increase your sorrow and your conception. In pain you shall bear sons, and your desire shall be toward your husband, and he shall rule over you.

My children, for whom I again travail until Christ should be formed in you,

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, far gone in days, and it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

The woman has grief when she bears, because her hour has come. But when she brings forth the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a man is born into the world.

Before she travailed, she gave birth; before her pain came, she delivered a man child.

By faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him who had promised to be faithful.

And woe to those who are with child, and to those who give suck in those days!

As a woman with child draws near to bear, she is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in Your sight, O Jehovah.

And we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

But if she bears a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her menstruation. And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying sixty-six days.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of the young.

But woe to those who are with child, and to those suckling in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath on this people.

And Jehovah spoke to Moses saying,

We conceived; we have been in pain, we gave birth to wind. We have not brought about any salvation in the earth; nor have the people of the world fallen.

And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she said, This time I will praise Jehovah. Therefore she called his name Judah, and quit bearing.

And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women. For they are lively, and are delivered before the midwives come in to them.

And it happened when she was in hard labor in her bearing, the midwife said to her, Do not fear, you shall have this son also.

And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said to her, Do not fear, for you have borne a son. But she did not answer, nor set her heart.

Ephraim is like a bird; their glory shall fly away from birth, and from the womb, and from conception.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we put more abundant honor around them. And our unpresentable members have more abundant propriety.

And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body already dead (being about a hundred years old) or the deadening of Sarah's womb.