Childbearing

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

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

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.”

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

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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

You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your livestock. — read the full passage →

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways. — read the full passage →

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

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.” — read the full passage →

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

You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth. — 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 →

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good? — read the full passage →

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, — read the full passage →

On the way at a lodging place, Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill him. — read the full passage →

Onan knew that the seed wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. — read the full passage →

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” — read the full passage →

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

“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.”

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. — 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,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother’s breasts. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

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.

Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety;

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women aren’t like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh: “shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — 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.

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

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience; — read the full passage →

for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy; — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. — read the full passage →

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

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 behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy! — 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.

You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.

But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

All your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of your children.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you. — read the full passage →

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.

It was told the house of David, saying, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.