Childlessness

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t bear; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

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.’

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, “Yahweh will surely separate me from his people”; neither let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” — read the full passage →

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

“‘If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is an impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They shall be childless.

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can’t live with you.

Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh. — 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,

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

Sarai was barren. She had no child.

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 →

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

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.

Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him. — read the full passage →

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

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 →

The whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh. — read the full passage →

The sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son, — read the full passage →

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

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me. — read the full passage →

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

Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” — read the full passage →