49 Bible Verses about Having A Baby
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Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!
"Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?" asks the Lord. "Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?" asks your God.
Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people.
Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
Ask yourselves this and consider it carefully: Have you ever seen a man give birth to a baby? Why then do I see all these strong men grabbing their stomachs in pain like a woman giving birth? And why do their faces turn so deathly pale?
Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.
On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.
But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.
We were pregnant, we strained, we gave birth, as it were, to wind. We cannot produce deliverance on the earth; people to populate the world are not born.
He said to me, 'Look, you will conceive and have a son. So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. For the child will be dedicated to God from birth till the day he dies.'"
Yes, sons are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.
How blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! They will not be put to shame when they confront enemies at the city gate.
Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
Abraham and Sarah were old and advancing in years; Sarah had long since passed menopause.)
Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years -- even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity -- even if he were to live forever -- I would say, "A stillborn child is better off than he is!"
So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.
But they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both very old.
Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"
He went to be registered with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him, and who was expecting a child.
and said, "I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
But the children struggled inside her, and she said, "If it is going to be like this, I'm not so sure I want to be pregnant!" So she asked the Lord,
(just as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every firstborn male will be set apart to the Lord"),
If she bears a female child, she will be impure fourteen days as during her menstrual flow, and she will remain sixty-six days in blood purity.
So Boaz married Ruth and had sexual relations with her. The Lord enabled her to conceive and she gave birth to a son.
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.
The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women -- for the Hebrew women are vigorous; they give birth before the midwife gets to them!"
For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!'
Ephraim will be like a bird; what they value will fly away. They will not bear children -- they will not enjoy pregnancy -- they will not even conceive!
So Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "After I am worn out will I have pleasure, especially when my husband is old too?"
After some time his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. She said,
"Look! The virgin will conceive and bear a son, and they will call him Emmanuel," which means "God with us."
Tell your children about it, have your children tell their children, and their children the following generation.
The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said, "My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don't kill him!" But the other woman said, "Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!"
As she was dying, the women who were there with her said, "Don't be afraid! You have given birth to a son!" But she did not reply or pay any attention.
So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, 'Hand over your son and we'll eat him.' But she hid her son!"
The king then said, "Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!"
"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!
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