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Designer Babies
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So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? — read the full passage →
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
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.
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
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?
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.
And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, — read the full passage →
And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
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;
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. — read the full passage →
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: — read the full passage →
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. — read the full passage →
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
For this child I prayed; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him: — read the full passage →
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: — read the full passage →
And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? — read the full passage →
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; — read the full passage →
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 I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. — read the full passage →
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: KJV.