Matt.24.8  all this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.
Mark.13.8  For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places, there will be famines; this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.
Acts.2.24  But God raised him up, having loosed the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
1Tim.6.10  For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs.
Rev.12.2  she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.