Womb

“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.”

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.

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

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

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

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

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);

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;

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

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

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:

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

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

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

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.

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh: “shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.

As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

“You shall not murder.

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.

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

(as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”),

For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

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

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from your midst. — read the full passage →

“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 →

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”

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

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

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.

even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

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

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

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

He will love you, bless you, multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

“Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine.”

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter! — read the full passage →

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

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

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

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.

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

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

In the time of her travail, behold, twins were in her womb.

When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.

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

But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

The womb shall forget him. The worm shall feed sweetly on him. He shall be no more remembered. Unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.

but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

“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;

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite: — read the full passage →

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

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: — read the full passage →

for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

She called out with a loud voice, and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all who open the womb, even the firstborn of all the children of Israel, I have taken them to me.

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 →

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

He took a little child, and set him in their midst. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, — read the full passage →

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

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

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,

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

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.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

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

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;

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 →

but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

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

because he didn’t kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

“Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows!

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

Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. — read the full passage →

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

“The leach has two daughters: ‘Give, give.’ “There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’ — read the full passage →