When Life Begins

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.

“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.”

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

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

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

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

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:

“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.

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

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;

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

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

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

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.

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.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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

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

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;

“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 →

“You shall not murder.

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,

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, — read the full passage →

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

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

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.

“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 the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”

Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

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

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

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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.

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.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

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

A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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

If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath, — read the full passage →

But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

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 →

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

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

But flesh with its life, that is, its blood, you shall not eat.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

The same was in the beginning with God.

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.

I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

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

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

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

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

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

“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — 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.

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and give birth to a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

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

The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it be so, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.

They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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);

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; — read the full passage →

Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and tell them, you dry bones, hear Yahweh’s word. — read the full passage →

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water; — read the full passage →

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.