Designer Babies

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’ — read the full passage →

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

“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.”

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

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.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

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,

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

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

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.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

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.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

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.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your 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, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching: — read the full passage →

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. 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 nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him. — read the full passage →

These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart; — read the full passage →

She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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.

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.