How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein? the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our later days.
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.
If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; of which I Paul am made a minister;