John 16:21

First Nations Version

All of you will be filled with sorrow, but your sorrow will turn into dancing! “When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow, for her time of pain has come. But when she gives birth to her child, she forgets her pain, for a new human being has been born into the world.

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 5:3

At a time when people are saying, “Peace and safety,” sudden destruction will come down on their heads, like the pains of birth that come upon a woman with child, and there will be no way to escape.

Galatians 4:27

For it is written in our Sacred Teachings, “O childless woman who has never given birth or felt the pains of childbirth, dance for joy and shout as loud as you can! For the woman who was barren has more children than a woman with a husband.”