Topic
Not Having Children
10 verses · ranked by helpfulness
For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.”
He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!
For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”
Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →
As he did so year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and didn’t eat. — read the full passage →
For thus says Yahweh, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: — read the full passage →
Happy are you, land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: WEB.