8 Bible Verses about Labour Pains

A woman in labor is in pain because her time has come; but no sooner is the child born, than she forgets her trouble in her joy that a man has been born into the world.

She was with child; and 'she is crying out in the pain and agony of childbirth.'

For Scripture says--'Rejoice, thou barren one, who dost never bear, Break into shouts, thou who art never in labor, For many are the children of her who is desolate--aye, more than of her who has a husband.'

You for whom I am again enduring a mother's pains, till a likeness to Christ shall have been formed in you.

All this, however, will be but the beginning of the birth pangs!

For 'nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom'; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This will be but the beginning of the birth-pangs.

When people are saying 'All is quiet and safe,' it is then that, like birth-pains upon a woman with child, Ruin comes suddenly upon them, and there will be no escape!

We know, indeed, that all Nature alike has been groaning in the pains of labor to this very hour.