From conception, God is intimately involved in the formation and development of human life, as seen in Jeremiah 1:5, where the prophet is told he was known and set apart before birth. The Psalms also emphasize God's sovereignty over the womb, with Psalms 139:13-16 describing how He skillfully weaves together the unborn child. Additionally, Psalms 127:3 and Job 31:15 acknowledge that children are a gift from God, and Psalms 127:3-5 compares them to arrows in the hand of a warrior, implying a sense of purpose and destiny. The Bible teaches that life begins at conception and is precious to God.
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“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.”
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.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?
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.
This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
The word of the LORD came to me, saying: “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.”
And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, that Israel might be gathered to Him— for I am honored in the sight of the LORD, and My God is My strength—
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who by Myself spread out the earth,
For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.
Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast. From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.
Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased