Pregnancy

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

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.

“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.

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

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.

For behold, when the voice of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy! — read the full passage →

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Behold, you are with child, and will bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

“If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. — read the full passage →

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

You will have joy and gladness; and many will rejoice at his birth.

He will love you, bless you, multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren, and don’t bear; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken. — read the full passage →

Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother’s breasts. — read the full passage →

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

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

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,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.”

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience; — read the full passage →

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

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. — 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. — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. — 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.

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. — read the full passage →

No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy; — read the full passage →

But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!

She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

After these days Elizabeth, his wife, conceived, and she hid herself five months, saying, — read the full passage →

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you. — read the full passage →

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. — read the full passage →

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

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

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

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Then Menahem struck Tiphsah, and all who were therein, and its borders, from Tirzah: because they didn’t open to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might. — read the full passage →

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us. — read the full passage →

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. — read the full passage →

The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. — read the full passage →

After these things Yahweh’s word came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” — read the full passage →

But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, “Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you.

You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth. — read the full passage →

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite: — read the full passage →

When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.”

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

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.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

“Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns. — read the full passage →

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies. — read the full passage →

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.”

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation! — read the full passage →

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

Listen, islands, to me; and listen, you peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:

Like as a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, Yahweh.

The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines encamped in Aphek. — read the full passage →

When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”