Childbirth

4 passages

1. Genesis 3:16

   To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

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2. 1 Timothy 2:15

   Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

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3. John 16:21

   A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

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4. Genesis 1:28

   God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

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