46 Bible Verses about Having A Baby
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But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.
Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.
Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength;
It will be hard for women who are with child, and for her with a baby at the breast, in those days. For great trouble will come on the land, and wrath on this people.
As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.
Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was in this way: when his mother Mary was going to be married to Joseph, before they came together the discovery was made that she was with child by the Holy Spirit.
My prayer was for this child; and the Lord has given him to me in answer to my request:
When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.
And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;
But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.
But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son; and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food; for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.
Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.
In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.
Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.
If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.
And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.
Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?
To be put on the list with Mary, his future wife, who was about to become a mother.
And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.
And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.
(As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord),
But if she gives birth to a female child, then she will be unclean for two weeks, as when she is unwell; and she will not be completely clean for sixty-six days.
So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord made her with child and she gave birth to a son.
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.
And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.
For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.
As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.
And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?
Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.
After that time, Elisabeth, being certain that she was to become a mother, kept herself from men's eyes for five months, saying,
See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.
And he took them in his arms, and gave them a blessing, putting his hands on them.
Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.
Then the mother of the living child came forward, for her heart went out to her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the child; do not on any account put it to death. But the other woman said, It will not be mine or yours; let it be cut in two.
And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it.
So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.
And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.
Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.
