Breastfeeding
9 passages
- Luke 11:27
As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”
Read it in context - Lamentations 4:3
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
Read it in context - 1 Peter 2:2
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
Read it in context - Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
Read it in context - Genesis 49:25
by the God of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you, with blessings of the heavens above, with blessings of the depths below, with blessings of the breasts and womb.
Read it in context - Joel 2:16
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.
Read it in context - Psalm 22:9
Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
Read it in context - 1 Thessalonians 2:7
On the contrary, we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother caring for her children.
Read it in context - Genesis 21:8
So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
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