24 Bible Verses about childbearing

But she will be saved through childbearing, if she continues in faith, love, and holiness, with good judgment.

He said to the woman:

I will intensify your labor pains;
you will bear children in anguish.
Your desire will be for your husband,
yet he will rule over you.

My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.

Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

When a woman is in labor she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world.

Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth;
before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.

By faith even Sarah herself, when she was unable to have children, received power to conceive offspring, even though she was past the age, since she considered that the One who had promised was faithful.

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

As a pregnant woman about to give birth
writhes and cries out in her pains,
so we were before You, Lord.

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now.

But if she gives birth to a female child, she will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstrual impurity. She will continue in purification from her bleeding for 66 days.

All these events are the beginning of birth pains.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
are the sons born in one’s youth.

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days, for there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

We became pregnant, we writhed in pain;
we gave birth to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
and the earth’s inhabitants have not fallen.

And she conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife can get to them.”

During her difficult labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have another son.”

As she was dying, the women taking care of her said, “Don’t be afraid. You’ve given birth to a son!” But she did not respond or pay attention.

Ephraim’s glory will fly away like a bird:
no birth, no gestation, no conception.

I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.

And those parts of the body that we think to be less honorable, we clothe these with greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have a better presentation.

He considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about 100 years old) and also considered the deadness of Sarah’s womb, without weakening in the faith.