49 Bible Verses about Having A Baby
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Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?" says the LORD: "shall I who cause to bring forth shut the womb?" says your God.
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days. For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.
As you do not know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you do not know the work of God who does all.
Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened like this. His mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, and before they came together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
A woman, when she gives birth, has pain, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she does not remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
It happened on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zechariah, after the name of the father.
but she will be delivered through childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with good judgment.
We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son. And now drink no wine nor strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.'"
Behold, children are a heritage of the LORD. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
Blessed is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. The LORD was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:
Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"
to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him, being pregnant.
and said, "Truly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of the LORD.
(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, "Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord"),
But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days.
So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women aren't like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them."
For look, the days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'
As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.
Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying,
"Look, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;" which is translated, "God with us."
Tell your children about it, and have your children tell their children, and their children, another generation.
Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it." But the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide it."
About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, "Do not be afraid; for you have given birth to a son." But she did not answer, neither did she regard it.
So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him;' and she has hidden her son."
The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other."
"Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
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