The Fetus Being Human

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. — read the full passage →

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. — read the full passage →

For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. — read the full passage →

Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: — read the full passage →

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: — read the full passage →

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! — read the full passage →

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not kill.

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,

And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. — read the full passage →

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

The same dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live.

And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season? — read the full passage →

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. — read the full passage →

Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts. — read the full passage →

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; — 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.

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,

And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. — read the full passage →

And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. — read the full passage →

And God spake all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. — read the full passage →

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. — read the full passage →

And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. — read the full passage →

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. — read the full passage →

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.

And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda; — read the full passage →

These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:

Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. — read the full passage →