Conception

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord.

He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. — read the full passage →

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the Lord, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her.

And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. — read the full passage →

And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. — read the full passage →

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; — read the full passage →

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. — read the full passage →

For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.

Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

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

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. — read the full passage →

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. — read the full passage →

Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.

And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, — read the full passage →

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. — read the full passage →

Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. — read the full passage →

Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.

And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

Thou shalt not kill.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts. — read the full passage →

Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. — read the full passage →

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.