3 Bible Verses about Travail

My little children [i.e., dear ones], I am again deeply pained [as a woman in childbirth] over your [spiritual] condition, until [the life of] Christ becomes formed in your character.

A woman has pain when giving birth because her time has come. But when the child is born, she does not remember the intense suffering because she is so happy over the child being born into the world.

For we know that the entire created world moans in painful anguish [i.e., as a woman in childbirth] until this present moment.