Pregnant

`And he who may receive one such child in my name, doth receive me,

`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.'

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

`And when men strive, and have smitten a pregnant woman, and her children have come out, and there is no mischief, he is certainly fined, as the husband of the woman doth lay upon him, and he hath given through the judges; — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe did leap in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit,

and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus;

For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly. — read the full passage →

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!

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

for, `Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false testimony, Thou shalt not covet;' and if there is any other command, in this word it is summed up, in this: `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;'

`Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber; — read the full passage →

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

and this <FI>is<Fi> to you the sign: Ye shall find a babe wrapped up, lying in the manger.'

for, lo, when the voice of thy salutation came to my ears, leap in gladness did the babe in my womb;

Become desolate doth Samaria, Because she hath rebelled against her God, By sword they do fall, Their sucklings are dashed in pieces, And its pregnant ones are ripped up!

(for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her--

this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;

for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

He saith to him, `What kind?' And Jesus said, `Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,

Give to them, Jehovah--what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

The soul that doth sin--it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.

Eyes high--tongues false--And hands shedding innocent blood--

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

And they came, having hasted, and found both Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger,

aged, young man, and virgin, and infant, and women, ye do slay--to destruction; and against any man on whom <FI>is<Fi> the mark ye do not go nigh, and from My sanctuary ye begin.'

See, O Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?

Hearken, O isles, unto me, And attend, O peoples, from afar, Jehovah from the womb hath called me, From the bowels of my mother He hath made mention of my name.