24 Bible Verses about childbearing

Notwithstanding, she will be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety.

To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children: and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you,

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and far advanced in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a male child.

Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

And woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days!

As a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth, and travaileth in pain together until now:

But if she shall bear a female-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying sixty six days.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

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

But woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse infants in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

And she conceived again, and bore a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah, and left bearing.

And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women: for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in to them.

And it came to pass when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

And about the time of her death, the women that stood by her said to her, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.