'Pains' in the Bible
Then the news about Him spread throughout Syria. So they brought to Him all those who were afflicted, those suffering from various diseases and intense pains, the demon-possessed, the epileptics, and the paralytics. And He healed them.
and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, with intense and terrible, tormenting pain.”
So that the word of Isaiah the prophet might come true: He himself took our pains and our diseases.
All these events are the beginning of birth pains.
For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.
At that time, he made a number of people free from their diseases and their pains, and from evil spirits; and to others who were blind he gave back the use of their eyes.
For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;
For when, with your opponent, you are going before the magistrate, on the way take pains to get out of his power; for fear that, if he should drag you before the judge, the judge may hand you over to the officer of the court, and the officer lodge you in prison.
Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes, but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages--that food which will be the Son of Man's gift to you; for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now.
O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?
My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.
For it is written, "Rejoice, you childless woman, who cannot give birth to any children! Break into song and shout, you who feel no pains of childbirth! For the children of the deserted woman are more numerous than the children of the woman who has a husband."
That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;
When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction comes on them, like labor pains come on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
Nay, when he was here in Rome, he took great pains to inquire where I was living, and at last he found me.
Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
Attempting to see what sort of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them was pointing to, when it gave witness to the pains which Christ would undergo and the glories which would come after them.
But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.
She was pregnant and was crying out from her labor pains, the agony of giving birth.