John 16:21

Geneva Bible (1560)

A woman when she traueileth, hath sorowe, because her houre is come: but assoone as she is deliuered of the childe, she remembreth no more the anguish, for ioy that a man is borne into the world.

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  • Jer 30:6-7 : 6 Demand now and beholde, if man trauayle with childe? wherefore doe I beholde euery man with his hands on his loynes as a woman in trauaile, and all faces are turned into a palenesse? 7 Alas, for this day is great: none hath bene like it: it is euen the time of Iaakobs trouble, yet shall he be deliuered from it.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they shall say, Peace, and safetie, then shall come vpon them sudden destruction, as the trauaile vpon a woman with childe, and they shall not escape,
  • Rev 12:2-5 : 2 And she was with childe, and cried traueiling in birth, and was pained readie to be deliuered. 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaue: for beholde, a great red dragon hauing seuen heads, and ten hornes, and seuen crownes vpon his heads: 4 And his taile drew the thirde part of the starres of heauen, and cast them to the earth; the dragon stood before the woman, which was ready to be deliuered, to deuoure her childe, when shee had brought it foorth. 5 So shee brought foorth a man childe, which should rule all nations with a rod of yron: and that her childe was taken vp vnto God and to his throne.
  • Hos 13:13-14 : 13 The sorowes of a trauailing woman shall come vpon him: he is an vnwise sonne, els would he not stande still at the time, euen at the breaking forth of the children. 14 I wil redeeme them from the power of the graue: I will deliuer them from death: O death, I wil be thy death: O graue, I will be thy destruction: repentance is hid from mine eyes.
  • Mic 4:10 : 10 Sorow and mourne, O daughter Zion, like a woman in trauaile: for nowe shalt thou goe foorth of the citie, and dwel in the field, and shalt goe into Babel, but there shalt thou be deliuered: there the Lord shall redeeme thee from the hand of thine enemies.
  • Luke 1:57-58 : 57 Nowe Elisabets time was fulfilled, that shee should be deliuered, and shee brought foorth a sonne. 58 And her neighbours, and cousins heard tell howe the Lorde had shewed his great mercie vpon her, and they reioyced with her.
  • Gal 4:27 : 27 For it is written, Reioyce thou barren that bearest no children: breake forth, & cry, thou that trauailest not: for the desolate hath many moe children, then she which hath an husband.
  • Gen 3:16 : 16 Vnto the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy sorowes, and thy conceptions. In sorowe shalt thou bring foorth children, and thy desire shalbe subiect to thine husbande, and he shall rule ouer thee.
  • Gen 21:6-7 : 6 Then Sarah said, God hath made me to reioyce: all that heare will reioyce with me. 7 Againe she said, Who would haue saide to Abraham, that Sarah shoulde haue giuen children sucke? for I haue borne him a sonne in his olde age.
  • Gen 30:23-24 : 23 So she conceiued & bare a sonne, and said, God hath taken away my rebuke. 24 And shee called his name Ioseph, saying, The Lord wil giue me yet another sonne.
  • 1 Sam 1:26-27 : 26 And she said, Oh my Lord, as thy soule liueth, my lord, I am the woman that stoode with thee here praying vnto the Lord. 27 I prayed for this childe, and the Lord hath giuen me my desire which I asked of him.
  • Ps 113:9 : 9 He maketh the barren woman to dwell with a familie, and a ioyfull mother of children. Prayse ye the Lord.
  • Isa 13:8 : 8 And they shalbe afraid: anguish and sorowe shal take them, and they shal haue paine, as a woman that trauaileth: euery one shall be amased at his neighbour, and their faces shalbe like flames of fire.
  • Isa 26:16-18 : 16 Lorde, in trouble haue they visited thee: they powred out a prayer when thy chastening was vpon them. 17 Like as a woman with childe, that draweth neere to the trauaile, is in sorow, and cryeth in her paines, so haue we bene in thy sight, O Lord. 18 We haue coceiued, we haue borne in paine, as though we should haue brought forth winde: there was no helpe in the earth, neither did the inhabitants of the world fall.

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  • John 16:20
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    20Verely, verely I say vnto you, that ye shall weepe and lament, and the worlde shall reioyce: and ye shall sorowe, but your sorowe shalbe turned to ioye.

  • John 16:22
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    22And ye nowe therefore are in sorowe: but I will see you againe, & your hearts shal reioyce, and your ioy shall no man take from you.

  • Isa 66:7-10
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    7Before she trauailed, she brought foorth: and before her paine came, she was deliuered of a man childe.

    8Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seene such things? shall ye earth be brought forth in one day? or shall a nation be borne at once? for assoone as Zion trauailed, she brought foorth her children.

    9Shall I cause to trauaile, and not bring forth? shall I cause to bring forth, and shall be baren, saith thy God?

    10Reioyce ye with Ierusalem, and be gladde with her, all ye that loue her: reioyce for ioy with her, all ye that mourne for her,

  • Rev 12:2
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    2And she was with childe, and cried traueiling in birth, and was pained readie to be deliuered.

  • Isa 26:17-18
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    17Like as a woman with childe, that draweth neere to the trauaile, is in sorow, and cryeth in her paines, so haue we bene in thy sight, O Lord.

    18We haue coceiued, we haue borne in paine, as though we should haue brought forth winde: there was no helpe in the earth, neither did the inhabitants of the world fall.

  • Hos 13:13
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    13The sorowes of a trauailing woman shall come vpon him: he is an vnwise sonne, els would he not stande still at the time, euen at the breaking forth of the children.

  • Gal 4:27
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    27For it is written, Reioyce thou barren that bearest no children: breake forth, & cry, thou that trauailest not: for the desolate hath many moe children, then she which hath an husband.

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    14And thou shalt haue ioy and gladnes, and many shall reioyce at his birth.

  • Mic 4:9-10
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    9Nowe why doest thou crie out with lamentation? is there no King in thee? is thy counseller perished? for sorowe hath taken thee, as a woman in trauaile.

    10Sorow and mourne, O daughter Zion, like a woman in trauaile: for nowe shalt thou goe foorth of the citie, and dwel in the field, and shalt goe into Babel, but there shalt thou be deliuered: there the Lord shall redeeme thee from the hand of thine enemies.

  • Gen 3:16
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    16Vnto the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy sorowes, and thy conceptions. In sorowe shalt thou bring foorth children, and thy desire shalbe subiect to thine husbande, and he shall rule ouer thee.

  • Luke 21:23
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    23But woe be to them that be with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes: for there shalbe great distresse in this land, and wrath ouer this people.

  • Jer 30:6
    70%

    6Demand now and beholde, if man trauayle with childe? wherefore doe I beholde euery man with his hands on his loynes as a woman in trauaile, and all faces are turned into a palenesse?

  • Matt 24:19
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    19And woe shalbe to them that are with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.

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    1Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.

  • Jer 4:31
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    31For I haue heard a noyse as of a woman trauailing, or as one labouring of her first child, euen the voyce of the daughter Zion that sigheth and stretcheth out her handes: woe is me nowe: for my soule fainteth because of the murtherers.

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    6Feare came there vpon them, and sorowe, as vpon a woman in trauaile.

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    17Then wo shalbe to the that are with child, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.

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    3Therefore are my loynes filled with sorow: sorowes haue taken me as the sorowes of a woman that trauayleth: I was bowed downe when I heard it, and I was amased when I sawe it.

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    57Nowe Elisabets time was fulfilled, that shee should be deliuered, and shee brought foorth a sonne.

  • Jer 13:21
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  • Luke 23:28-29
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    28But Iesus turned backe vnto them, & said, Daughters of Hierusalem, weepe not for me, but weepe for your selues, and for your children.

    29For behold, the dayes wil come, when men shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombes that neuer bare, and the pappes which neuer gaue sucke.

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    25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.

  • Rom 8:22
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    22For we knowe that euery creature groneth with vs also, and trauaileth in paine together vnto this present.

  • Job 39:16
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    16(39:19) He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed in vaine.

  • Gen 35:17
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    17And whe she was in paines of her labour, the midwife saide vnto her, Feare not: for thou shalt haue this sonne also.

  • 1 Thess 5:3
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    3For when they shall say, Peace, and safetie, then shall come vpon them sudden destruction, as the trauaile vpon a woman with childe, and they shall not escape,

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  • Jer 20:15
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    15Cursed be the man, that shewed my father, saying, A man child is borne vnto thee, and comforted him.

  • Jer 6:24
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    24We haue heard their fame, and our handes waxe feeble sorrowe is come vpon vs, as the sorrowe of a woman in trauaile.

  • Ps 126:5
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    5They that sowe in teares, shall reape in ioy.

  • Gal 4:19
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    19My litle children, of whome I trauaile in birth againe, vntill Christ be formed in you.

  • Jer 22:23
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    23Thou that dwellest in Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the cedars, howe beautiful shalt thou be when sorowes come vpon thee, as the sorowe of a woman in trauaile?

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    44For loe, assoone as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine eares, the babe sprang in my bellie for ioye,

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    18How is it, that I came forth of the wombe, to see labour and sorowe, that my dayes shoulde be consumed with shame?

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