Genesis 3:16

New American Bible - revised edition

To the woman he said: I will intensify your toil in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you act rightly, you will be accepted; but if not, sin lies in wait at the door: its urge is for you, yet you can rule over it.

1 Chronicles 4:9

Jabez was the most distinguished of his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “I bore him with pain.”

Psalm 48:6

When they looked they were astounded; terrified, they were put to flight!

Isaiah 13:8

and they are terrified, Pangs and sorrows take hold of them, like a woman in labor they writhe; They look aghast at each other, their faces aflame.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish, pangs have seized me like those of a woman in labor; I am too bewildered to hear, too dismayed to look.

Isaiah 53:11

Because of his anguish he shall see the light; because of his knowledge he shall be content; My servant, the just one, shall justify the many, their iniquity he shall bear.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when rulers are appointed over you, those you taught to be allies? Will not pains seize you like those of a woman giving birth?

Jeremiah 22:23

You who dwell on Lebanon, who nest in the cedars, How you shall groan when pains come upon you, like the pangs of a woman in childbirth!

Jeremiah 4:31

Yes, I hear the cry, like that of a woman in labor, like the anguish of a mother bearing her first child— The cry of daughter Zion gasping, as she stretches out her hands: “Ah, woe is me! I sink exhausted before my killers!”

Jeremiah 49:24

Damascus loses heart, turns to flee; panic has seized it. Distress and pangs take hold, like the pain of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 6:24

We hear news of them; our hands hang helpless, Anguish takes hold of us, pangs like a woman in childbirth.

Numbers 30:13

But if on the day he learns of them her husband annuls them, then whatever she has expressly promised in her vows or in her pledge becomes invalid; since her husband has annulled them, the Lord will release her from them.

John 16:21

When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and a husband the head of his wife, and God the head of Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:34

women should keep silent in the churches, for they are not allowed to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.

1 Corinthians 7:4

A wife does not have authority over her own body, but rather her husband, and similarly a husband does not have authority over his own body, but rather his wife.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, be subordinate to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

1 Timothy 2:15

But she will be saved through motherhood, provided women persevere in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, chaste, good homemakers, under the control of their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.