Genesis 3:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He said to the woman: I will intensify your labour pains; you will bear children with painful effort. Your desire  will be for your husband, yet he will rule over you.

Cross References

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, pure, workers at home, kind, and in submission  to their husbands, so that God’s word  will not be slandered.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I want you to know that Christ is the head  of every man, and the man is the head of the woman,  , and God is the head of Christ.

1 Timothy 2:15

But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness,  with good sense.

1 Corinthians 14:34

the women  should be silent in the churches,  for they are not permitted to speak, but are to submit themselves, as the law also says.

1 Corinthians 7:4

A wife does not have the right over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband does not have the right over his own body, but his wife does.

John 16:21

When a woman is in labour, 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.

Genesis 4:7

If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.’

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard about it, and our hands have become weak. Distress has seized us – pain, like a woman in labour.

Numbers 30:13

Her husband may confirm or cancel any vow or any sworn obligation to deny herself.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, ‘Peace and security’, then sudden destruction  will come upon them, like labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Esther 1:20

The decree the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom,  so all women will honour their husbands,  from the greatest to the least.’

Jeremiah 22:23

You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan  when pains come on you, agony like a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when he appoints close friends as leaders over you, ones you yourself trained? Won’t labour pains seize you, as they do a woman in labour?

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore I am  filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labour. I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see.

Isaiah 13:8

They will be horrified; pain and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labour. They will look at each other, their faces flushed with fear.

Jeremiah 49:24

Damascus has become weak; she has turned to run; panic has gripped her. Distress and labour pains have seized her like a woman in labour.

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry like a woman in labour, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child. The cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands: ‘Woe is me, for my life is weary because of the murderers! ’

Isaiah 53:11

After his anguish, he will see light  and be satisfied. By his knowledge, my righteous  servant  will justify many, and he will carry their iniquities.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

1 Chronicles 4:9

Jabez  was more honoured than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez and said, ‘I gave birth to him in pain.’