What does the Bible say about married women having children?
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The Bible presents childbearing within marriage as a good and God-given calling, while not making marriage or motherhood a requirement for every woman. In Genesis 1:28, God blesses humanity with the command to be fruitful and multiply, and Genesis 2:18, 2:24 establishes marriage as a covenantal union of man and woman. Hebrews 13:4 calls marriage honorable, and 1 Timothy 5:14 commends marriage, childbearing, and faithful household life in its context. Husbands are commanded in Ephesians 5:25 to love their wives sacrificially, reflecting Christ’s love for the church. Above all, John 3:16-17 reminds believers that salvation rests in God’s grace through Christ, not in fulfilling a particular domestic calling.
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- John 3:16-17
[16] 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. [17] For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
- Revelation 1:1
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,
- Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Genesis 2:18
Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
- 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."
- Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
- 1 Timothy 5:14
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.
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