What does childbearing have to do with the salvation of a woman?
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Background: God uses trials and pains to perfect his people so that they become more like Christ (Rom. 5:3-4). This is the salvation known as the sanctification of the believer, or "being saved."
Answer: In the case of this verse, the woman can find her relationship with God strengthened even with the pain of childbirth if she continues through it in faith.
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What does childbearing have to do with the salvation of a woman?
This is an example of the benefit an expanded translation can have over word for word translations.
1 Timothy 2:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety. - KJV
1 Timothy 2:15 Nevertheless [the sentence put upon women of pain in motherhood does not hinder their souls' salvation, and] they will be saved [eternally] if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control, [saved indeed] through the Childbearing or by the birth of the divine Child. - Amplified
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As timf quoted:
they will be saved [eternally] if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control, [saved indeed] through the Childbearing or by the birth of the divine Child. - Amplified
Childbearing resulted in the birth of Jesus. If you look at "she", the "woman" as an image not for each woman as an individual, but as womanhood as a whole, or as Eve specifically, who is mentioned in the verse before, than she, the woman is saved through childbearing - the birth of Jesus. Or as you can already see promised in Genesis 3, when God addresses the snake:
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel - Genesis 3:15.
Eve's offspring - singular - will crush the snake's head and destroy it.
Now that still leaves the part of the verse where it says "if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety" ... and that may still sound like this salvation requires works. However notice what it mentions first in this list after childbearing, which as explained refers to Jesus: faith. This faith and resulting life change then results in charity and holiness and sobriety - which are things God does works in us through His Holy Spirit - see for example Gal. 5:22-23.
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