Pregnancy
10 passages
- Psalm 127:3
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
Read it in context - Jeremiah 1:4–5
4The word of the LORD came to me, saying: 5“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Read it in context - John 16:21
A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
Read it in context - Psalm 139:13
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Read it in context - Ecclesiastes 11:5
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
Read it in context - Job 31:15
Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
Read it in context - Luke 1:44–45
44For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 45Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord’s word to her will be fulfilled.”
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 16:11
The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
Read it in context - Luke 23:29
Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
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