Designer Babies

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

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.

The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

He took a little child, and set him in their midst. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, — read the full passage →

and said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes. Did you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing babies you have perfected praise?’”

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

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, — 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.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand, — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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.

(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.