Isaiah 66:7
like as when a wife bringeth forth a man child, before she suffer the pain of the birth and anguish of the travail.
Isaiah 54:1
Therefore be glad now, thou barren that bearest not. Rejoice, sing and be merry, thou that art not with child: For the desolate hath more children, than the married wife, sayeth the LORD.
Galatians 4:26
But Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is the mother of us all.
Revelation 12:1-5
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven. A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
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Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
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Isaiah 54:1
Therefore be glad now, thou barren that bearest not. Rejoice, sing and be merry, thou that art not with child: For the desolate hath more children, than the married wife, sayeth the LORD.
Galatians 4:26
But Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is the mother of us all.
Revelation 12:1
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven. A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.