8 Bible Verses about Labour Pains

A woman, when she is in labour, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has given birth to the babe, she no longer remembers the pain, because of her joy at a child being born into the world.

and she was crying out in the pains and agony of childbirth.

For it is written, "Rejoice, thou barren woman that bearest not, break forth into a joyful cry, thou that dost not travail with child. For the desolate woman has many children--more indeed than she who has the husband."

you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.

but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.

For nation will rise in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.

While they are saying "Peace and safety!" then in a moment destruction falls upon them, like birth-pains on a woman who is with child; and escape there is none.

For we know that the whole of Creation is groaning together in the pains of childbirth until this hour.