Bible Verses About Birth Pains
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for birth pains, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,296 votes, led by Matthew 24:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Birth Pains
Matthew 24:890 votes
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
1 Thessalonians 5:378 votes
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Matthew 24:1-5175 votes
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
Genesis 3:1650 votes
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Matthew 24:344 votes
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Matthew 24:3037 votes
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Revelation 12:1-237 votes
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
Isaiah 26:17-1832 votes
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.
Matthew 24:731 votes
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Matthew 24:2131 votes
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Luke 21:20-2431 votes
And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
Matthew 24:1329 votes
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Matthew 24:4-827 votes
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Mark 13:825 votes
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Jeremiah 4:3124 votes
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
John 16:2124 votes
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Daniel 11:3123 votes
And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
Romans 8:2223 votes
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Matthew 24:422 votes
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
Revelation 21:422 votes
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Isaiah 13:1020 votes
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Daniel 12:1120 votes
And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Matthew 24:1420 votes
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Matthew 24:1520 votes
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Isaiah 34:419 votes
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
What does the Bible say about birth pains?
Readers most often cite Matthew 24:8 on the subject of birth pains. Across 1,296 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Matthew 24:1-51, Genesis 3:16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.