John 16:21

Modern English Version

When a woman is giving birth, she has pain, because her hour has come. But as soon as she delivers the child, she no longer remembers the anguish for joy that a child is born into the world.

Cross References

Genesis 3:16

To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, and in pain you will bring forth children; your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Job 11:16

because you will forget misery, and remember it as waters that pass away,

Psalm 113:9

He gives the barren woman a home, to be a joyful mother of children. Praise 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 who travails; they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore, my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold of me as the pangs of a woman who travails. I am so perplexed at the hearing of it; I am so dismayed at the seeing of it.

Isaiah 66:7

Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before her pain came, she delivered a son.

Micah 4:10

Writhe and bring forth, daughter of Zion, like the woman in labor, because now you will go forth from the city and reside in the field, and you will come to Babylon. There you will be rescued; there the Lord will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.

Micah 4:9

Now why do you cry loudly? Have you no king? Has your counselor perished, that agony has seized you like the woman in labor?

Galatians 4:27

For it is written: “Rejoice, barren woman who does not bear; break forth and shout, you who have no labor pains! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.”

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.