Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
Travailing
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Bible References
Travailing
Revelation 12:4
His tail was dragging after it a third part of the stars of heaven and dashed them down upon the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth to a child, in order to devour her child as soon as it was born.
John 16:21
When a woman is in labor, she is in pain, for her time has come, but when the baby is born, she forgets her pain because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.
Galatians 4:19
O my dear children, I am suffering a mother's birth pangs for you again, until Christ is formed in you.
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Matthew 2:7
Then Herod secretly sent for the stargazers, and found out from them exactly the time the star appeared.