24 Bible Verses about childbearing

notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if she continues in faith and charity and sanctification and modesty.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth sons; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

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

The woman, when she is in travail, has pain, because her hour is come; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers the anguish no more, for joy that a man is born into the world.

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

By faith also Sara herself being sterile received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she believed him to be faithful who had promised.

And woe unto those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!

Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.

For we now know that all the creatures groan together and travail in pain together until now.

But if she gives birth to a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, according to her separation, and she shall be purifying herself for sixty-six days from her blood.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the young men.

But woe unto those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people.

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

We have conceived, we have had birth pangs; we have, as it were, brought forth wind; we have not wrought any health in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

And she conceived again and gave birth a son; and she said, Now I will praise the LORD; therefore she called his name Judah and stopped bearing children.

And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, for they are lively and are delivered before the midwives come in unto them.

And it came to pass when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not, for thou hast given birth to a son. But she did not answer, neither did she regard it.

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth even from the womb and from the conception.

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

and those members of the body which we think to be more vile, these we dress with more abundant honour; and those in us who are more indecent have more honesty.

And he did not weaken in faith: he considered not his own body now dead when he was about one hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb;