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  • John 16:21
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 21 When a woman is giving birth, she has grief because her hour has come, but when she has given birth to the child, she remembers the tribulation no more because of the joy that a child has been born into the world.

  • John 16:21
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 21 ἡ The γυνὴ woman ὅταν whenever τίκτῃ she may give birth λύπην grief ἔχει, is having, ὅτι because ἦλθεν came ἡ the ὥρα hour αὐτῆς· of her; ὅταν whenever δὲ but γεννήσῃ she should become parent to τὸ the παιδίον, little boy, οὐκέτι not yet μνημονεύει she is remembering τῆς of the θλίψεως tribulation διὰ through τὴν the χαρὰν joy ὅτι because ἐγεννήθη was generated ἄνθρωπος man εἰς into τὸν the κόσμον. world.

  • John 16:21
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 21 A woman, when she is giving birth, has grief, because her hour has arrived;+ but when she has brought forth the young child, she remembers the tribulation no more because of the joy that a man has been born into the world.

  • John 16:21
    The Bible in Living English
    • 21 When a woman is giving birth she feels grief because her time has come; but when she brings forth the child she no longer remembers the distress because of her gladness that a man has been born into the world.

  • John 16:21
    American Standard Version
    • 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.

  • John 16:21
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 21 A woman as soon as she is about to bring forth Hath grief because her hour hath come; But as soon as she hath given birth to the child No longer remembereth she the anguish By reason of the joy, that a human being into the world hath been born.

  • John 16:21
    King James Version
    • 21 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.

  • John
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 16:21 w64 49

  • John Study Notes—Chapter 16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 16:21

      born into the world: Here Jesus used the birth of a human as an illustration to show how tribulation and grief can be “turned into joy.” (Joh 16:20) A woman giving birth experiences the pain of childbirth, but the joy of bringing a new life into the world will overshadow the pain and make her forget it. In this context, the term “world” (Greek, koʹsmos) refers to the organized, human society, or sphere of human life and circumstances, into which the child is born. In the Bible, the term “world” sometimes has this meaning.​—1Co 14:10; 1Ti 6:7; see study note on Lu 9:25.

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