Giving Birth

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

“Before she travailed, she gave birth; before her pain came, she delivered a son. — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.

While they were there, the day had come for her to give birth.

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean. — read the full passage →

Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!”

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh: “shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

“Before she travailed, she gave birth; before her pain came, she delivered a son.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. — read the full passage →

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah, — read the full passage →

Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord. — read the full passage →

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, — read the full passage →

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pains have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

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

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her monthly period she shall be unclean.

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite: — read the full passage →

A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →

(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.

Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. — read the full passage →

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, — read the full passage →

When the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord

His father, Zacharias, was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying, — read the full passage →

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. — read the full passage →

She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. — read the full passage →

and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. — read the full passage →

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” — read the full passage →

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. — read the full passage →

Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, — read the full passage →

Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

The third day after I delivered, this woman delivered also. We were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, just us two in the house.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, — read the full passage →

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.