24 Bible Verses about childbearing

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

Unto the woman He said, 'Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband is thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

And Sarah is hearkening at the opening of the tent, which is behind him;

'The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

Before she is pained she hath brought forth, Before a pang cometh to her, She hath delivered a male.

By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise;

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

When a pregnant woman cometh near to the birth, She is pained -- she crieth in her pangs, So we have been from Thy face, O Jehovah.

for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.

'And if a female she bear, then she hath been unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and sixty and six days she doth abide for the blood of her cleansing.

and all these are the beginning of sorrows;

As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So are the sons of the young men.

'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

We have conceived, we have been pained. We have brought forth as it were wind, Salvation we do not work in the earth, Nor do the inhabitants of the world fall.

And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith this time, 'I praise Jehovah;' therefore hath she called his name Judah; and she ceaseth from bearing.

And the midwives say unto Pharaoh, 'Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, for they are lively; before the midwife cometh in unto them -- they have borne!'

and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, 'Fear not, for this also is a son for thee.'

And at the time of her death, when the women who are standing by her say, 'Fear not, for a son thou hast borne,' she hath not answered, nor set her heart to it;

Ephraim is as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.

and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee -- the head, and thou dost bruise him -- the heel.'

and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb,