All ¹  these things are the beginning of birth pains.

We are Jews by birth ¹  and not Gentile sinners, ² 

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

Joy and gladness will come ¹  to you, and many will rejoice at ²  his birth, ³ 

Now as Jesus was passing by, ¹  he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you! ¹ 

She ¹  was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, struggling ²  to give birth.

but did not have marital relations ¹  with her until she gave birth to a son, whom he named ²  Jesus.

Listen: ¹  You will become pregnant ²  and give birth to ³  a son, and you will name him ⁴  Jesus. ⁵ 

Now the time came ¹  for Elizabeth to have her baby, ²  and she gave birth to a son.

In ¹  Lystra ²  sat a man who could not use his feet, ³  lame from birth, ⁴  who had never walked.

But when the one ¹  who set me apart from birth ²  and called me by his grace was pleased

She will give birth to a son and you will name him ¹  Jesus, ²  because he will save his people from their sins.”

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth ¹  through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

Now ¹  when the dragon realized ²  that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, ¹  she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

For nation will rise up in arms ¹  against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. ²  These are but the beginning of birth pains.

for he will be great in the sight of ¹  the Lord. He ²  must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth. ³ 

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth ¹  and laid him in a manger, ²  because there was no place for them in the inn. ³ 

When a woman gives birth, she has distress ¹  because her time ²  has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being ³  has been born into the world. ⁴