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Features study articles, annotations, and more than 300 topical notes on hundreds of subjects of interest to women. Written from a conservative perspective that honors the special role women have throughout the Scriptures. It includes portraits of more than 100 women of the Bible, inspirational quotations, and 175 original in-text charts and maps. Written, edited, and produced by women for women....

PAIN: PHYSICAL: TURNING AFFLICTION INTO JOY Pain was part of the God-given consequence to mankind for believing Satan and disobeying God in the Garden of Eden. Women were to experience pain in childbirth and men, the pain of labor as they worked the ground (Gen. 3:16, 17). As a result the “whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs” (Rom. 8:22). Everyone is subject to pain until God brings “a new heaven and a new earth” and “there shall be no more pain” (Rev. 21:1, 4). Job, “a blameless and