John 16:21

God's Word

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.

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

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.”

Job 11:16

⌞Then⌟ you will forget your misery and remember it like water that has flowed downstream.

Psalm 113:9

He makes a woman who is in a childless home a joyful mother. Hallelujah!

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 66:7

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

Micah 4:10

Daughter of Zion, writhe in pain and groan like a woman in labor. Now you will leave the city, live in the open fields, and go to Babylon. There you will be rescued. There the Lord will reclaim you from your enemies.

Micah 4:9

Now why are you crying so loudly? Don’t you have a king? Has your counselor died? Pain grips you like a woman in labor.

Galatians 4:27

Scripture says: “Rejoice, women who cannot get pregnant, who cannot give birth to any children! Break into shouting, those who feel no pains of childbirth! Because the deserted woman will have more children than the woman who has a husband.”

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.