24 Bible Verses about childbearing

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

He said to the woman: I will greatly increase your pains in childbirth; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.

My little children, of whom I am again in labor pains until Christ is formed in you

Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

A woman in tribulation has sorrow, because her hour to give birth has come. When she delivers the child, she remembers no more anguish, because of the joy that a man is born into the world.

Before a woman goes into labor, she gives birth. Before she has labor pains, she delivers a male child.

By faith Sarah received strength to conceive seed when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who promised.

You who are pregnant or nursing babies in those days will feel trouble.

Like a woman with child and about to give birth struggles and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, O Jehovah.

For we know that the whole creation groans and is in pain together until now.

When a woman gives birth to a girl, she will be unclean as in her monthly period. She will be unclean for two weeks. Then she must stay at home for sixty-six days in order to be made clean from her bleeding.

These things are the beginning of birth pains (Greek: odin': in the throws of pain, such as childbirth).

The children born to a man when he is young are like arrows in the hand of a warrior.

Woe to those who are pregnant and those who nurse a child in those days! There will be great distress upon the land, and wrath to this people.

Jehovah spoke to Moses:

We were with child, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth. We have not given birth to people of the world.

Leah became pregnant again and gave birth to another son. She said: This time I will praise Jehovah. So she named him Judah (Praise). Then she stopped having children.

The midwives replied to Pharaoh: Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women. They are vigorous and give birth before the midwife can get to them.

When one of her pains hit, the midwife said: Do not be afraid. You have another son!

She too was dying. The women helping her said: Do not be afraid. You have given birth to a son. But she did not answer or pay attention.

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird: No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!

And I will put enmity (hostility) (hatred) between you and the woman, and between your offspring (seed) and hers. He will bruise (overwhelm) (crush) you in the head, and you will bruise (overwhelm) (crush) him in the heel. (Romans 16:20)

And those members of the body that we think to be less honorable, we offer these more honors. Our less acceptable parts have more abundant acceptability.

Not being weak in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.