'Birth' in the Bible

And the son of Jacob was Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus, whose name is Christ.

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.

And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.

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 had no connection with her till she had given birth to a son; and he gave him the name Jesus.

Now when the birth of Jesus took place in Beth-lehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship.

And he got together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, questioning them as to where the birth-place of the Christ would be.

For there are men who, from birth, were without sex: and there are some who were made so by men: and there are others who have made themselves so for the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to take it, let him take it.

Now the woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by birth: and she made a request to him that he would send the evil spirit out of her daughter.

The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but cursed is that man through whom the Son of man is given up! It would have been well for that man if he had never been given birth.

And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.

And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.

For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.

And see, you will give birth to a son, and his name will be Jesus.

And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.

Now it was time for Elisabeth to give birth, and she had a son.

And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth.

For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.

And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth.

And it came about that when he said these things, a certain woman among the people said in a loud voice, Happy is the body which gave you birth, and the breasts from which you took milk.

So he said, A certain man of high birth went into a far-away country to get a kingdom for himself, and to come back.

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.

Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you, Without a new birth no man is able to see the kingdom of God.

Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?

Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.

The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.

For Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his birth.

And when he went on his way, he saw a man blind from birth.

And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth?

And put the question to them, saying, Is this your son, of whom you say that he was blind at birth? how is it then that he is now able to see?

In answer his father and mother said, We are certain that this is our son and that he was blind at birth:

In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.

Their answer was: You came to birth through sin; do you make yourself our teacher? And they put him out of the Synagogue.

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.

Then Pilate said to him, Are you then a king? Jesus made answer, You say that I am a king. For this purpose was I given birth, and for this purpose I came into the world, that I might give witness to what is true. Every lover of what is true gives ear to my voice.

And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?

In Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and those who have come from Rome, Jews by birth and others who have become Jews,

And a certain man who from birth had had no power in his legs, was taken there every day, and put down at the door of the Temple which is named Beautiful, requesting money from those who went into the Temple;

And Joseph, who was given by the Apostles the name of Barnabas (the sense of which is, Son of comfort), a Levite and a man of Cyprus by birth,

At which time Moses came to birth, and he was very beautiful; and he was kept for three months in his father's house:

And at Lystra there was a certain man, who from birth had been without the use of his feet, never having had the power of walking.

And there he came across a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by birth, who not long before had come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had given orders that all Jews were to go away from Rome: and he came to them;

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by birth, and a man of learning, came to Ephesus; and he had great knowledge of the holy Writings.

I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.

And the chief captain said, I got Roman rights for myself at a great price. And Paul said, But I had them by birth.

But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, who was of the Jews by birth, and sent for Paul, and gave hearing to him about faith in Christ Jesus.

For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.

And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me.

We being Jews by birth, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

My children, of whom I am again in birth-pains till Christ is formed in you,

Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar.

For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,

Being without father or mother, or family, having no birth or end to his life, being made like the Son of God, is a priest for ever.

And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

By faith Moses was kept secretly by his father and mother for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a fair child; and they had no fear of the king's orders.

Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

And his tail was pulling a third part of the stars of heaven down to the earth, and the dragon took his place before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when the birth had taken place he might put an end to her child.

And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who was to have rule over all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was taken up to God and to his high seat.

And when the dragon saw that he was forced down to the earth, he made cruel attacks on the woman who gave birth to the male child.