John 16:21 ESV/NIV - Online Parallel Bible
| English Standard Version (ESV) | New International Version (NIV) |
| 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. | 21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain 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. |
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