Bearing Children

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

Unto the woman He said, `Multiplying I multiply thy sorrow and thy conception, in sorrow dost thou bear children, and toward thy husband <FI>is<Fi> thy desire, and he doth rule over thee.'

and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy, — read the full passage →

and he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the women and the children, and saith, `What <FI>are<Fi> these to thee?' And he saith, `The children with whom God hath favoured thy servant.'

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, — read the full passage →

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she <FI>is<Fi> barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth,

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them, — read the full passage →

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant <FI>is<Fi> the peace of thy sons.

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not. — read the full passage →

Sons' sons <FI>are<Fi> the crown of old men, And the glory of sons <FI>are<Fi> their fathers.

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

`Do I bring to the birth, And not cause to bring forth?' saith Jehovah, `Am not I He who is causing to beget? I have also restrained,' said thy God.

Her sons have risen up, and pronounce her happy, Her husband, and he praiseth her,

Withhold not from a youth chastisement, When thou smitest him with a rod he dieth not.

Have no desire to his dainties, seeing it <FI>is<Fi> lying food.

Thy wife <FI>is<Fi> as a fruitful vine in the sides of thy house, Thy sons as olive plants around thy table.

`When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious--he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them-- — read the full passage →

`Blessed art thou above all the peoples, there is not in thee a barren man or a barren woman--nor among your cattle;

And Jehovah God saith unto the serpent, `Because thou hast done this, cursed <FI>art<Fi> thou above all the cattle, and above every beast of the field: on thy belly dost thou go, and dust thou dost eat, all days of thy life; — read the full passage →

for Adam was first formed, then Eve, — read the full passage →

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

Happy art thou, O land, When thy king <FI>is<Fi> a son of freemen, And thy princes do eat in due season, For might, and not for drunkenness.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

for in this were the elders testified of;

Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection, — read the full passage →

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

when the Christ--our life--may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I--of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

Nicodemus saith unto him, `How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'

and they said, `Moses suffered to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.'

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them,

They labour not for a vain thing, Nor do they bring forth for trouble, For the seed of the blessed of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> they, And their offspring with them.

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.

Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,

Chastise thy son, and he giveth thee comfort, Yea, he giveth delights to thy soul.

Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, — read the full passage →

A Song of the Ascents. O the happiness of every one fearing Jehovah, Who is walking in His ways.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So <FI>are<Fi> the sons of the young men.

`Blessed art thou above all the peoples, there is not in thee a barren man or a barren woman--nor among your cattle; — read the full passage →

And God remembereth Rachel, and God hearkeneth unto her, and openeth her womb,

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'