John 16:21

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

A woman when she should bring forth, has grief, because her hour has come: and when the child should be born, she no more remembers the anguish, for the joy that a man was born into the world.

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, Multiplying, I will multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and to thy husband thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

Job 11:16

For thou shalt forget toil, then shalt remember as waters they passed away.

Psalm 113:9

Causing the sterile woman to dwell in the house, a mother of sons being glad. Praise ye Jah.

Isaiah 13:8

And they trembled; pains and writhings will lay hold of them; as she bringing forth they will be in pain: they shall wonder a man at his neighbor; their faces the face of flames.

Isaiah 21:3

For this, my loins were filled with pain: distress took hold of me as the pains of her bringing forth: I was shaken from hearing; I trembled from seeing

Isaiah 66:7

Bringing forth before she will travail, before pain will come to her, she was delivered of a male.

Micah 4:10

Be in pain and bring forth, O daughter of Zion, as she bringing forth: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and dwell in the field, and going even to Babel; there shalt thou be delivered; there Jehovah will redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Micah 4:9

Now wherefore wilt thou cry out with an outcry? is no king in thee? or thy counselor perished? for pain laid hold of thee as she bringing forth.

Galatians 4:27

For it has been written, Be cheered, O barren, bearing not; break out and cry, she travailing not: for many more the children of the desolate than she having a husband.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.