²¹ A woman giving birth to a child has pain^(A) because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.

²⁴ But God raised him from the dead,^(A) freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.^(B)

²² We know that the whole creation has been groaning^(A) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.