Genesis 3:16

God's Word

He said to the woman, “I will increase your pain and your labor when you give birth to children. Yet, you will long for your husband, and he will rule you.”

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do well, won’t you be accepted? But if you don’t do well, sin is lying outside your door ready to attack. It wants to control you, but you must master it.”

1 Chronicles 4:9

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez [Painful], because she said that his birth was painful.

Esther 1:20

When you issue your decree, your whole kingdom, great as it is, will hear it. Then all the wives will honor their husbands, regardless of their status.”

Psalm 48:6

Trembling seized them like the trembling that a woman experiences during labor.

Isaiah 13:8

They’ll be terrified. Pain and anguish will seize them. They’ll writhe like a woman giving birth to a child. They’ll look at one another in astonishment. Their faces will be burning red.

Isaiah 21:3

That is why my body is full of trembling. Pain grips me like the pain of childbirth. I’m disturbed by what I hear. I’m terrified by what I see.

Isaiah 53:11

He will see and be satisfied because of his suffering. My righteous servant will acquit many people because of what he has learned ⌞through suffering⌟. He will carry their sins as a burden.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when God makes the people you thought were your friends your new masters? Won’t pain grip you like a woman in labor?

Jeremiah 22:23

You live in Lebanon and have your nest in the cedars. But you will groan when pain strikes you, pain like a woman giving birth to a child.

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a woman in labor. I hear the woman cry with anguish as she gives birth to her first child. My people Zion are gasping for breath. They are stretching out their hands, saying, “How horrible it is for us! We’re defenseless in the presence of murderers!”

Jeremiah 49:24

The people of Damascus are weak. They turn to flee, but panic grips them. Anguish and pain grip them like a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the news about them. Our hands hang limp. We are gripped by anguish and pain like a woman giving birth to a child.

Numbers 30:13

“A husband decides whether or not his wife has to keep any vow to do something or any oath to do without something.

John 16:21

A woman has pain when her time to give birth comes. But after the child is born, she doesn’t remember the pain anymore because she’s happy that a child has been brought into the world.

1 Corinthians 11:3

However, I want you to realize that Christ has authority over every man, a husband has authority over his wife, and God has authority over Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:34

the women must keep silent. They don’t have the right to speak. They must take their place as Moses’ Teachings say.

1 Corinthians 7:4

A wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but his wife does.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, place yourselves under your husbands’ authority. This is appropriate behavior for the Lord’s people.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “Everything is safe and sound!” destruction will suddenly strike them. It will be as sudden as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They won’t be able to escape.

1 Timothy 2:13

After all, Adam was formed first, then Eve.

1 Timothy 2:15

However, she ⌞and all women⌟ will be saved through the birth of the child, if they lead respectable lives in faith, love, and holiness.

Titus 2:5

to use good judgment, and to be morally pure. Also, tell them to teach young women to be homemakers, to be kind, and to place themselves under their husbands’ authority. Then no one can speak evil of God’s word.