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.”

Cross References (28)

  • Titus 2:5 (31)

    to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word

  • Colossians 3:18 (25)

    Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

  • 1 Corinthians 11:3 (19)

    But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Chr

  • 1 Timothy 2:15 (15)

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

  • 1 Corinthians 14:34 (14)

    Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.

  • Ephesians 5:22–24 (14)

    Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

  • 1 Timothy 2:11–12 (13)

    A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:4 (11)

    The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over h

  • John 16:21 (11)

    A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish b

  • Genesis 4:7 (10)

    If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door;

  • 1 Peter 3:1–6 (8)

    Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will b

  • Jeremiah 6:24 (6)

    We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

  • Micah 4:9–10 (6)

    Why do you now cry aloud? Is there no king among you? Has your counselor perished so that anguish grips you like a woman

  • Numbers 30:13 (5)

    Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.

  • 1 Samuel 4:19–21 (4)

    Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the ca

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:3 (3)

    While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant

  • Esther 1:20 (3)

    The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, wi

  • Isaiah 13:8 (2)

    Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their

  • Genesis 35:16–18 (2)

    Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and h

  • Jeremiah 22:23 (2)

    O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a wom

  • Isaiah 26:17–18 (2)

    As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.

  • Isaiah 21:3 (2)

    Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I

  • Jeremiah 13:21 (2)

    What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as t

  • Jeremiah 4:31 (1)

    For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zio

  • Isaiah 53:11 (1)

    After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant wil

  • Numbers 30:7–8 (1)

    and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself

  • Psalms 48:6 (1)

    Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.

  • Jeremiah 49:24 (1)

    Damascus has become feeble; she has turned to flee. Panic has gripped her; anguish and pain have seized her like a woman