“Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Chronicles 4 contains 43 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.