24 Bible Verses about childbearing

but she will be delivered through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with good judgment.

To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

My children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you?

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

A woman, when she gives birth, has pain, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she does not remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

"Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she delivered a son.

By faith he received power to procreate when he was past age, and Sarah herself was barren. He regarded him faithful who had promised.

But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days.

Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, LORD.

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

But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.

But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days. For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise the LORD." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."

When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid, for now you will have another son."

About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, "Do not be afraid; for you have given birth to a son." But she did not answer, neither did she regard it.

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety;

Without being weakened in faith, he considered his own body as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.