What A Blessing It Is To Have A Baby

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

`The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world.

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

And Mary having arisen in those days, went to the hill-country, with haste, to a city of Judea, — read the full passage →

But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them, — read the full passage →

and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy,

and when God was well pleased--having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called <FI>me<Fi> through His grace--

and the child grew and was strengthened in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

as it hath been written in the Law of the Lord, --`Every male opening a womb shall be called holy to the Lord,'

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

for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

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 →

At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?' — read the full passage →