“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 whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me.

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.

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus.

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

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.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Samaria will bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

And this will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!

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.

But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

He exploited our people and oppressed our fathers, forcing them to abandon their infants so they would die.

The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.

Give them, O LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’

“Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,

If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.

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.

Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph and the Baby, who was lying in the manger.