30 Bible Verses about Birth

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Leviticus 12:7

who shall offer it before the LORD and reconcile her, and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that has given birth to a male or a female.

Leviticus 12:2

Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, If a woman has conceived seed and gives birth to a man child, then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her menses shall she be unclean.

John 16:21

The woman, when she is in travail, has pain, because her hour is come; but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers the anguish no more, for joy that a man is born into the world.

Isaiah 45:10

Woe unto him that says unto his father, Why dost thou beget? or to the woman, Why hast thou brought forth?

Jeremiah 31:8

Behold, I turn them from the land of the north wind and gather them from the coasts of the earth; there shall be blind and lame among them, and women with child and those that travail with child together; a great company shall return there.

Exodus 1:16

and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women and see the sex, if it is a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.

Exodus 1:19

And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women, for they are lively and are delivered before the midwives come in unto them.

Romans 9:11

(for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand: not of works, but of him that calls),

Deuteronomy 28:57

and toward her young one that comes out from between her feet and toward her children which she shall bear, for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness with which thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates,

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Birth » Pangs in giving

Psalm 48:6

Fear took hold upon them there and pain as of a woman in travail.

Isaiah 13:8

And they shall be filled with terror; anguish and pain shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have taken hold upon me as the pangs of a woman that travails; I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is faint because of the murderers.

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the fame thereof; our hands wax feeble; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain as of a woman in travail.

Birth » Giving, ordained to be in sorrow

the Human nature of Christ » Is proved by his » Birth

Matthew 1:16

Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

Humility of Christ » Exhibited in his » Birth

Luke 2:4-7

And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth into Judaea unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem (because he was of the house and family of David) to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was that while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. read more.
And she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.

New » Birth » Covenant

Jeremiah 31:31

Behold, the days come, said the LORD, in which I will make a new covenant with the house of Jacob and with the house of Judah:

Romans 11:27

and this shall be my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins.

Hebrews 8:8

For finding fault with them, he said, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new testament with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

More verses: Hebrews 8:10

New » Birth » By the word of God

New » Birth » Necessary to salvation

New » Birth » Essential to spiritual vision

2 Corinthians 3:3

Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

New » Birth » A new creation

New » Birth » Birth of a new spirit

New » Birth » Obtained by faith

New » Birth » Of divine origin

Topics on Birth

Birth Control

Genesis 38:8-10

Then Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife and marry her and raise up seed to thy brother.

Birth, Physical

Job 10:8-12

Thine hands have formed me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

Births Foretold

Genesis 16:11

And the angel of the LORD yet said unto her, Behold, thou art with child and shalt bear a son and shalt call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has heard thy affliction.

From Birth

Psalm 22:10

I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my God from my mother's belly.

Jesus' Birth

Isaiah 9:6-7

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government is placed upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called The Wonderful One, The Counsellor, The God, The Mighty One, The Eternal Father, The Prince of Peace.

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