Genesis 3:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

To the woman he said, “I will make your pangs in childbirth exceedingly great; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

1 Chronicles 4:9

Jabez was honored more than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”

Esther 1:20

So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, vast as it is, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”

Psalm 48:6

trembling took hold of them there, pains as of a woman in labor,

Isaiah 13:8

and they will be terrified. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me like the pangs of a woman in labor; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

Isaiah 53:11

Out of his anguish he shall see; he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you have trained to be your allies? Will not pangs seize you like those of a woman in labor?

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before killers!”

Jeremiah 49:24

Damascus has become feeble; she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and pangs seize her, as of a woman in labor.

Jeremiah 6:24

“We have heard news of them; our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in labor.

Numbers 30:13

Any vow or any binding oath to humble herself, her husband may allow to stand or her husband may nullify.

John 16:21

When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being 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 the woman, and God is the head of Christ.

1 Corinthians 14:34

Women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak but should be subordinate, as the law also says.

1 Corinthians 7:4

For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise, 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

When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was formed first, then Eve,

1 Timothy 2:15

Yet she will be saved through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.