Genesis 3:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; 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 couching at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

1 Chronicles 4:9

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name 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.”

Psalm 48:6

trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in travail.

Isaiah 13:8

and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in travail. 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 travail; I am bowed down so that I cannot hear, I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

Isaiah 53:11

he shall see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous; and he shall bear their iniquities.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you, like those of a woman in travail?

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 travail!”

Jeremiah 4:31

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

Jeremiah 49:24

Damascus has become feeble, she turned to flee, and panic seized her; anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the report of it, our hands fall helpless; anguish has taken hold of us, pain as of a woman in travail.

Numbers 30:13

Any vow and any binding oath to afflict herself, her husband may establish, or her husband may make void.

John 16:21

When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 14:34

the women should keep silence in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.

1 Corinthians 7:4

For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule 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 people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was formed first, then Eve;

1 Timothy 2:15

Yet woman will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.

Titus 2:5

to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be discredited.