Barrenness

For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.”

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised. — read the full passage →

Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory—

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. — read the full passage →

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard, and your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the priestly division of Abijah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none. — read the full passage →

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to promise.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →