24 Bible Verses about childbearing

But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you."

My children -- I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!

Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Before she goes into labor, she gives birth! Before her contractions begin, she delivers a boy!

By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

As when a pregnant woman gets ready to deliver and strains and cries out because of her labor pains, so were we because of you, O Lord.

For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.

If she bears a female child, she will be impure fourteen days as during her menstrual flow, and she will remain sixty-six days in blood purity.

All these things are the beginning of birth pains.

Sons born during one's youth are like arrows in a warrior's hand.

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

We were pregnant, we strained, we gave birth, as it were, to wind. We cannot produce deliverance on the earth; people to populate the world are not born.

She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, "This time I will praise the Lord." That is why she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.

The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women -- for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!"

When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you are having another son."

As she was dying, the women who were there with her said, "Don't be afraid! You have given birth to a son!" But she did not reply or pay any attention.

Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value will fly away. They will not bear children -- they will not enjoy pregnancy -- they will not even conceive!

And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."

and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,

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