John 16:21

Lighthouse Bible 2006

A woman when she is in birth labor has sorrow, because her hour has come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.

Job 11:16

Because you shall forget your misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Psalm 113:9

He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.

Isaiah 13:8

And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in birth labor: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in birth labor: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

Isaiah 66:7

Before she labored in birth, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

Micah 4:10

Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in birth labor: for now shall you go forth out of the city, and you shall dwell in the field, and you shall go even to Babylon; there shall you be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

Micah 4:9

Now why do you cry out aloud? is there no king in you? is your counselor perished? for pangs have taken hold of you as of a woman in birth labor.

Galatians 4:27

For it is written, Rejoice, you barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry out, you who do not labor in birth: for the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as birth labor upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.