24 Bible Verses about childbearing

But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy childbearing, in pain thou shall bring forth children. And thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

My little children, of whom I suffer birth pains again until Christ is formed in you.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, [and] well stricken in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

When a woman brings forth she has pain because her hour has come. But when she has given birth to the child she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a man was born into the world.

Before she travailed, she brought forth. Before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.

By faith even Sarah herself received power for conception of seed, and she gave birth beyond the time of age, because she considered him faithful who promised.

And woe to those who have in the womb and to those who suckle in those days.

As a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs, so we have been before thee, O LORD.

For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing together until now.

But if she bears a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity, and she shall continue in the blood of [her] purifying sixty-six days.

But all these things are the beginning of travail.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of youth.

But woe to those who have in the womb, and to those who suckle in those days. For there will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people.

And 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 in the earth, nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

And she conceived again, and bore a son. And she said, This time I will praise LORD. Therefore she called his name Judah. And she left off bearing.

And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, for they are lively, and are delivered before the midwife comes to them.

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Fear not, for now thou shall have another son.

And about the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, Fear not, for thou have brought forth a son. But she did not answer, neither did she regard it.

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird. There shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

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

And those things of the body presumed to be without esteem, we place around these more abundant worth. And our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety,

And not being weak in faith he did not regard his body, which was now deadened (being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.