23 Bible Verses about childbearing

But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.

To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

My children, of whom I am again in birth-pains till Christ is formed in you,

Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.

When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.

Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child.

And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.

As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.

For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.

But if she gives birth to a female child, then she will be unclean for two weeks, as when she is unwell; and she will not be completely clean for sixty-six days.

But all these things are the first of the troubles.

It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.

And the Lord said to Moses,

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.

And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.

And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.

And when her pain was very great, the woman who was helping her said, Have no fear; for now you will have another son.

And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it.

As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.

And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.

And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect;

And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children: