24 Bible Verses about childbearing

But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase {your pain in childbearing}; in pain you shall bear children. And to your husband [shall be] your desire. And he shall rule over you."

My children, for whom I am having birth pains again, until Christ is formed in you!

Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old, {advanced in age}; {the way of women} had ceased to be for Sarah.

A woman, when she gives birth, experiences pain because her hour has come. But when [her] child is born, she no longer remembers the affliction, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

Before she was in labor she gave birth; before labor pains came to her, she gave birth to a son.

By faith also, {with Sarah}, he received {the ability to procreate} even {past the normal age}, because he regarded the one who had promised [to be] faithful.

And woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days!

Like pregnant woman on the point of giving birth, she writhes; she cries in her labor pains. So we were because of your presence, Yahweh.

For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers agony together until now.

But if she gives birth to a female, then she shall be unclean [for] two weeks as [in] her menstruation, and [for] sixty-six days she shall stay {through} the blood of [her] cleansing.

But all these [things] [are] the beginning of birth pains.

Like arrows in [the] hand of a warrior, so [are] the children of [one's] youth.

Woe to those {who are pregnant} and to those who are nursing [their babies] in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people,

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

We became pregnant, we writhed; we gave birth [to] wind. We cannot bring about deliverance [on the] earth, and no inhabitants of [the] world are born.

And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, "This time I will praise Yahweh." Therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased bearing children.

And the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew [women are] not like the Egyptian women, because they [are] vigorous; before the midwife comes to them, they have given birth."

And {when her labor was the most difficult} the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid {for you have another son}."

Just before the time of her death, those {attending her} said, "Do not fear, for you have given birth to a son." But she did not answer, or {pay any attention}.

Ephraim's glory [is] like a bird; it will fly away-- no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception.

And I will put hostility between you and between the woman, and between your offspring and between her offspring; he will strike you [on the] head, and you will strike him [on the] heel."

and [the parts] of the body which we think to be less honorable, these we clothe with more abundant honor, and our unpresentable [parts] come to have more abundant presentability,

And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, [because he] was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.