Genesis 3:16

Legacy Standard Bible

To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain and conception, In pain you will bear children; Your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.”

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is lying at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

1 Chronicles 4:9

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore him with pain.”

Esther 1:20

And the king’s sentence, which he will make, will be heard throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, and all women will give respect to their husbands, great and small.”

Psalm 48:6

Panic seized them there, Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.

Isaiah 13:8

They will be terrified, Pains and labor pangs will take hold of them; They will writhe like a woman in labor, They will look at one another in astonishment, Their faces aflame.

Isaiah 21:3

For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.

Isaiah 53:11

As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities.

Jeremiah 13:21

“What will you say when He appoints over you— And you yourself had taught them— Former companions to be head over you? Will not pangs seize you Like a woman in childbirth?

Jeremiah 22:23

“You who inhabit Lebanon, Nested in the cedars, How you will groan when pangs come upon you, Pain like a woman in childbirth!

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a sound as of a woman in labor pains, The distress as of one giving birth to her first child, The sound of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, Stretching out her hands, saying, “Ah, woe is me, for my soul faints before murderers.”

Jeremiah 49:24

“Damascus has become limp in their hands; She has turned away to flee, And panic has taken hold of her; Distress and pangs have seized her Like a woman in childbirth.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the report of it; Our hands are limp. Distress has taken hold of us, Pain as of a woman in childbirth.

Numbers 30:13

“Every vow and every binding oath to humble herself, her husband may cause it to stand, or her husband may annul it.

John 16:21

Whenever a woman is in labor she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:34

The women are to keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman who is pregnant, and they will never escape.

1 Timothy 2:13

For it was Adam who was first formed, and then Eve.

1 Timothy 2:15

But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with self-restraint.

Titus 2:5

to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be slandered.