28 Bible Verses about Abortion

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Exodus 21:22-25

“When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment. If there is an injury, then you must give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, read more.
burn for burn, bruise for bruise, wound for wound.

Psalm 139:13-16

For it was You who created my inward parts;
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You
because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful,
and I know this very well.
My bones were not hidden from You
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.
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Your eyes saw me when I was formless;
all my days were written in Your book and planned
before a single one of them began.

Isaiah 49:1

Coastlands, listen to me;
distant peoples, pay attention.
The Lord called me before I was born.
He named me while I was in my mother’s womb.

Luke 1:43-44

How could this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For you see, when the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby leaped for joy inside me!

Numbers 12:12

Please don’t let her be like a dead baby whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

Job 10:8-12

“Your hands shaped me and formed me.
Will You now turn and destroy me?
Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust?
Did You not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?
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You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and wove me together with bones and tendons.
You gave me life and faithful love,
and Your care has guarded my life.

Job 31:15

Did not the One who made me in the womb also make them?
Did not the same God form us both in the womb?

Amos 1:13

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing the Ammonites
for three crimes, even four,
because they ripped open
the pregnant women of Gilead
in order to enlarge their territory.

Job 3:3

May the day I was born perish,
and the night when they said,
“A boy is conceived.”

Psalm 22:9-10

You took me from the womb,
making me secure while at my mother’s breast.
I was given over to You at birth;
You have been my God from my mother’s womb.

Job 3:16

Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child,
like infants who never see daylight?

Isaiah 44:24

This is what the Lord, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb, says:

I am Yahweh, who made everything;
who stretched out the heavens by Myself;
who alone spread out the earth;

Isaiah 44:2

This is the word of the Lord
your Maker who formed you from the womb;
He will help you:
Do not fear; Jacob is My servant;
I have chosen Jeshurun.

Romans 1:28-29

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong. They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

2 Kings 19:3

They said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

Ruth 1:11

But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Am I able to have any more sons who could become your husbands?

Proverbs 6:16-17

The Lord hates six things;
in fact, seven are detestable to Him:
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,

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Abortion » Of animals » Thunder

Psalm 29:9

The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth
and strips the woodlands bare.


In His temple all cry, “Glory!”

Abortion » As a judgment

Hosea 9:14

Give them, Lord
What should You give?
Give them a womb that miscarries
and breasts that are dry!

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