24 Bible Verses about childbearing

But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.

To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

my children, of whom I again travail in birth until Christ shall have been formed in you:

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and advanced in age: it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man has been born into the world.

Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.

By faith also Sarah herself received strength for the conception of seed, and that beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised.

But woe to those that are with child, and those that give suck in those days.

As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah.

For we know that the whole creation groans together and travails in pain together until now.

And if she bear a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and she shall continue sixty-six days in the blood of her cleansing.

But all these are the beginning of throes.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.

And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

We have been with child, we have been in travail, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought the deliverance of the land, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased to bear.

And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian; for they are strong, and they have borne before the midwife comes to them.

And it came to pass when it went hard with her in her childbearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also is a son for thee.

And as she was dying, the women that stood by her said, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she did not answer, neither did she take it to heart.

As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away as a bird, no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.

and those parts of the body which we esteem to be the more void of honour, these we clothe with more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,