John 16:21

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

The woman has grief when she bears, because her hour came, but when she bears the child, she no longer remembers the distress, because of the joy that a man was born into the world.

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

He said to the woman, I will greatly increase your pain and your conception; you shall bear sons in sorrow, and your desire shall be toward your husband; and he shall rule over you.

Job 11:16

for you shall forget your misery, and shall remember it as waters that have passed;

Psalm 113:9

causing the barren one to dwell in the house, the joyful mother of sons. Praise Jah!

Isaiah 13:8

and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain like one giving birth; they shall be amazed, a man to his neighbor; faces of flames shall be their faces.

Isaiah 21:3

On account of this my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold on me like the pangs of a one giving birth. I am bowed from bearing; I am troubled from seeing.

Isaiah 66:7

before she travailed, she gave birth; before pain came to her, she delivered a male.

Micah 4:10

Be in pain and deliver, daughter of Zion, like one giving birth. For now you shall go out from the city, and you shall live in the field. And you shall come to Babylon. There you shall be snatched back. There Jehovah shall redeem you from the palm of your enemies.

Micah 4:9

Now why do you cry aloud, an outcry? Is there not a king among you? Has one advising you perished? For pain has seized you like one giving birth.

Galatians 4:27

for it is written, “Rejoice, barren one not bearing; break forth and shout, the one not travailing; for more are the children of the desolate rather than she having the husband.” Isa. 54:1

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they say, Peace and safety! Then sudden destruction comes upon them, like the birth-pain to the one having babe in womb, and they shall not escape, not one.