In the biblical account, children are a gift from God, and pregnancy is a time of anticipation and joy. The Psalms declare that children are a heritage from the Lord, with Psalms 127:3 stating that they are a reward. The prophets and writers also acknowledge God's sovereignty over conception and birth, as seen in Jeremiah 1:5, where the prophet is told he was known by God before he was born, and in 1 Samuel 1:27, where Hannah dedicates her son Samuel to the Lord. Isaiah 49:15 and Psalms 139:13-16 further emphasize God's intimate involvement in the formation of life in the womb.
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Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.
When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows. But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life— eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.