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What does the Bible say about having a baby?

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The Bible presents children as a gracious gift from God, calls parents to receive them with faith and thankfulness, and reminds us that conception, birth, and family life rest under his wise providence. Psalm 127:3-5 calls children a heritage from the Lord, while Genesis 1:28 affirms God’s blessing of fruitfulness. Scripture also shows that God personally forms each child and knows each life before birth, as Psalm 139:13-16 and Jeremiah 1:5 teach. Couples may rightly bring hopes and struggles for children to God in prayer, as Isaac did in Genesis 25:21. Parents are then entrusted to nurture children in the Lord’s instruction, trusting Christ for the fruit.

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  • Psalms 127:3-5

    [3] Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. [4] As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth. [5] Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

  • Psalms 127:3

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

  • Genesis 1:28

    God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

  • Jeremiah 1:5

    Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.

  • Proverbs 22:6

    Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

  • Psalms 128:3-5

    [3] Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of your house; Your children like olive plants, Around your table. [4] Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh. [5] May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, And may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

  • Psalms 139:13-16

    [13] For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. [14] I will give thanks to you, For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. [15] My frame wasn't hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth. [16] 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.

  • John 15:7-8

    [7] If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you. [8] "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

  • Genesis 25:21-22

    [21] Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. [22] The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of Yahweh.

  • John 16:21

    A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

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