Birth Control

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.” — read the full passage →

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.’

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. — read the full passage →

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation, — read the full passage →

Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit. — read the full passage →

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. — read the full passage →

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. — read the full passage →

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. — read the full passage →

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay. — read the full passage →

“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor. — read the full passage →

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.” — read the full passage →

but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

For thus says Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited: “I am Yahweh; and there is no other.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring:

In the multitude of people is the king’s glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.

The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death. — read the full passage →

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table. — read the full passage →

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments. — read the full passage →

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock. — read the full passage →

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow!” God granted him that which he requested.

After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.” — read the full passage →

Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed him, and said, “Isn’t it that Yahweh has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?

The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. — read the full passage →

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;

You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

“‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. — read the full passage →

For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh, your God, three times in the year.

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. — read the full passage →

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob): — read the full passage →

The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. — read the full passage →

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”