The Sanctity Of Life

“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.”

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

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.

“You shall not murder.

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’ — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

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

“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God. — read the full passage →

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

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.

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

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

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him. — read the full passage →

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

Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God has become my strength);

“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 →

Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

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:

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.

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

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

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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

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

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

He said to him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’

“You shall not murder.

Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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

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

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.

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 →

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

“‘You shall not give any of your children to sacrifice to Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

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

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;

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

Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!” — read the full passage →

Now in our law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. What then do you say about her?”

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? — read the full passage →

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne from their birth, that have been carried from the womb; — read the full passage →

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

He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name. On you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on 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. — read the full passage →

When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.

then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground. — read the full passage →

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

The same took advantage of our race, and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to throw out their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn’t command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

The man said to Joab, “Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I still wouldn’t stretch out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Beware that no one touch the young man Absalom.’ — read the full passage →

Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.”

You shall not do so to Yahweh your God; for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.

“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son. — read the full passage →

He said, “I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

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

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.

Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your prostitution a small matter, — read the full passage →

“For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. — read the full passage →

They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me. — read the full passage →

Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.” — read the full passage →

in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

“‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

“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.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother’s breasts.

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,