Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Matthew 24:8 in English Standard Version "All these are but the beginning of the birth pains." Joh 16:21 When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. Ac 2:24 God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. Ro 8:22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.