Does God Promise Women To Have Children

And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant <FI>is<Fi> the peace of thy sons.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

that is, the children of the flesh--these <FI>are<Fi> not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

and he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the women and the children, and saith, `What <FI>are<Fi> these to thee?' And he saith, `The children with whom God hath favoured thy servant.'

in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath,

and happy <FI>is<Fi> she who did believe, for there shall be a completion to the things spoken to her from the Lord.'

Sons' sons <FI>are<Fi> the crown of old men, And the glory of sons <FI>are<Fi> their fathers.

From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,

for of patience ye have need, that the will of God having done, ye may receive the promise,

For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

for if by law <FI>be<Fi> the inheritance, <FI>it is<Fi> no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant <FI>it<Fi> .

for the word of promise <FI>is<Fi> this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,

and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,

`Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour--Jesus,

`And according as the time of the promise was drawing nigh, which God did swear to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'

Because of this I say to you, all whatever--praying--ye do ask, believe that ye receive, and it shall be to you.

and those eating were four thousand men, apart from women and children.

`Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their ripping up the pregnant ones of Gilead, To enlarge their border,

The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

That, lo, all the women who have been left in the house of the king of Judah are brought forth unto the heads of the king of Babylon, and lo, they are saying: Persuaded thee, and prevailed against thee, Have thine allies, Sunk into mire have thy feet, They have been turned backward.

`Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb.

Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly. — read the full passage →

In mine adversity I call Jehovah, And unto my God I cry. He heareth from His temple my voice, And My cry before Him cometh into His ears.

also, my lap I have shaken, and I say, `Thus doth God shake out every man, who doth not perform this thing, from his house, and from his labour; yea, thus is he shaken out and empty;' and all the assembly say, `Amen,' and praise Jehovah; and the people do according to this thing.

`Because they have forsaken Me, and bow themselves to Ashtoreth, god<FI> dess<Fi> of the Zidonians, to Chemosh god of Moab, and to Milcom god of the sons of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways, to do that which <FI>is<Fi> right in Mine eyes, and My statutes and My judgments, like David his father.

`And if not, from fear of <FI>this<Fi> thing we have done it, saying, Hereafter your sons do speak to ours sons, saying, What to you and to Jehovah God of Israel?

`When thou begettest sons and sons' sons, and ye have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a graven image, a similitude of anything, and have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger: --

and all the infants among the women, who have not known the lying of a male, ye have kept alive for yourselves.

as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow, — read the full passage →

the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

And at dawn he came again to the temple, — read the full passage →

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> always to pray, and not to faint, — read the full passage →

And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices; — read the full passage →

And after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come, — read the full passage →

And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness, — read the full passage →

And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him; — read the full passage →

And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them, — read the full passage →

And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was there a man having the hand withered, — read the full passage →

A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God. — read the full passage →

And Jesus having come to the house of the ruler, and having seen the minstrels and the multitude making tumult,

and they have fought against thee, and they prevail not against thee; for with thee <FI>am<Fi> I, --an affirmation of Jehovah--to deliver thee.

And I--this <FI>is<Fi> My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My Spirit that <FI>is<Fi> on thee, And My words that I have put in thy mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy seed, And from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, From henceforth unto the age!

For I, Jehovah thy God, Am strengthening thy right hand, He who is saying to thee, `Fear not, I have helped thee.'

In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> sons, A reward <FI>is<Fi> the fruit of the womb. — read the full passage →

Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

For His messengers He chargeth for thee, To keep thee in all thy ways,

Look unto Jehovah--be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

They trust in Thee who do know Thy name, For Thou hast not forsaken Those seeking Thee, O Jehovah.

`And ye have served Jehovah your God, and He hath blessed thy bread and thy water, and I have turned aside sickness from thine heart;

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →