Genesis 3:16

Tree of Life Version

To the woman He said, “I will greatly increase your pain from conception to labor. In pain will you give birth to children. Your desire will be toward your husband, yet he must rule over you.”

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do well, it will lift. But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the doorway. Its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

1 Chronicles 4:9

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore him with pain.”

Esther 1:20

Then the king’s edict, which he will enact, will be proclaimed throughout all his vast kingdom, and all the wives will give their husbands honor from the greatest to the smallest.”

Psalm 48:6

They saw, then they were astounded, they fled in terror.

Isaiah 13:8

They will be terrified; pain and anguish will take hold of them; they will writhe as a woman in labor; they will look aghast at one another— their faces aflame!

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore my body is filled with pain. Pangs have taken hold of me like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bewildered by what I hear, terrified by what I see.

Isaiah 53:11

As a result of the anguish of His soul He will see it and be satisfied by His knowledge. The Righteous One, My Servant will make many righteous and He will bear their iniquities.

Jeremiah 13:21

What will you say, when He sets up the allies you cultivated for yourself, over you as head? Will not labor pains seize you, like a woman in travail?

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come on you, pain like a woman in travail!

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry like one in labor, the anguish of one giving birth to her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands saying, “Oy , now to me! For my soul faints before murderers.”

Jeremiah 49:24

Damascus has become feeble. She turns away to flee, panic grips her, anguish and pangs have seized her, like a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 6:24

“We have heard of their fame. Our hands hang limp; anguish has gripped us, pain like a woman in labor.

Numbers 30:13

Her husband may ratify or veto any vow or sworn oath to deny herself.

John 16:21

“When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, because of the joy that a human being has been born into the world.

1 Corinthians 11:3

But I want you to know that the head of every man is Messiah, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Messiah is God.

1 Corinthians 14:34

let women keep silent in the communities, for it is not permitted for them to speak out. Rather let them be in order, as the Torah also says.

1 Corinthians 7:4

The wife does not have the rights to her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband does not have the rights to his own body, but the wife.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When they are saying, “Shalom and safety,” sudden destruction comes upon them like a woman having birth pains in the womb—there is no way they will escape.

1 Timothy 2:13

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

1 Timothy 2:15

Nevertheless, she will be sustained through childbearing—if they continue in faithfulness and love and holiness, with sound judgment.

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, pure, managing their household, kind, submitted to their own husbands, so that God’s word may not be dishonored.