Genesis 3:16

Good News Translation

And he said to the woman, “I will increase your trouble in pregnancy and your pain in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for your husband, yet you will be subject to him.”

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you had done the right thing, you would be smiling; but because you have done evil, sin is crouching at your door. It wants to rule you, but you must overcome it.”

1 Chronicles 4:9

There was a man named Jabez, who was the most respected member of his family. His mother had given him the name Jabez, because his birth had been very painful.

Esther 1:20

When your proclamation is made known all over this huge empire, every woman will treat her husband with proper respect, whether he's rich or poor.”

Psalm 48:6

There they were seized with fear and anguish, like a woman about to bear a child,

Isaiah 13:8

They will all be terrified and overcome with pain, like the pain of a woman in labor. They will look at each other in fear, and their faces will burn with shame.

Isaiah 21:3

What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain, pain like that of a woman in labor.

Isaiah 53:11

After a life of suffering, he will again have joy; he will know that he did not suffer in vain. My devoted servant, with whom I am pleased, will bear the punishment of many and for his sake I will forgive them.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when people you thought were your friends conquer you and rule over you? You will be in pain like a woman giving birth.

Jeremiah 22:23

You rest secure among the cedars brought from Lebanon; but how pitiful you'll be when pains strike you, pains like those of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 4:31

I heard a cry, like a woman in labor, a scream like a woman bearing her first child. It was the cry of Jerusalem gasping for breath, stretching out her hand and saying, “I am doomed! They are coming to kill me!”

Jeremiah 49:24

The people of Damascus are weak and have fled in terror. They are in pain and misery like a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 6:24

“We have heard the news,” say the people of Jerusalem, “and our hands hang limp; we are seized by anguish and pain like a woman in labor.

Numbers 30:13

Her husband has the right to affirm or to annul any vow or promise that she has made.

John 16:21

When a woman is about to give birth, she is sad because her hour of suffering has come; but when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering, because she is happy that a baby has been born into the world.

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I want you to understand that Christ is supreme over every man, the husband is supreme over his wife, and God is supreme over Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:34

the women should keep quiet in the meetings. They are not allowed to speak; as the Jewish Law says, they must not be in charge.

1 Corinthians 7:4

A wife is not the master of her own body, but her husband is; in the same way a husband is not the master of his own body, but his wife is.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what you should do as Christians.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was created first, and then Eve.

1 Timothy 2:15

But a woman will be saved through having children, if she perseveres in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled and pure, and to be good housewives who submit themselves to their husbands, so that no one will speak evil of the message that comes from God.