17 Bible Verses About Pregnancy, for Expecting Mothers and Those Still Waiting

Christian Pure Team

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Zusammenfassung

  • Ecclesiastes 11:5 says no one knows how a body is formed in a mother’s womb, and uses it as an example of the work of God.
  • Job 31:15 grounds Job’s fair treatment of his servants in birth: the same God formed master and servant in the womb.
  • Isaiah 44:24 names the Lord as the one who formed his people in the womb and the one who stretches out the heavens.
  • Psalm 22:9-10 turns the subject around: the woman carrying a child was carried herself.
  • Psalm 113:9, about the childless woman made a happy mother, belongs to the Hallel, the psalms sung at Passover.

The Bible speaks of pregnancy mainly as God’s work: he forms the child in the womb, knows the child before birth, and sustains the mother who carries it. Ecclesiastes adds that no one understands how a body is formed in the womb (11:5). The seventeen verses below are grouped by what they speak to: the child, fear during pregnancy, the women in Scripture who waited years for a child, and the mother herself. The last section is for those who…

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Die Bibelzitate stammen aus der „New International Version“.

Sarah’s wait spans Genesis 12:4 to Genesis 21:5 — twenty-five years between the promise and Isaac’s birth; her laughter is at Genesis 18:12.

Hannah being mistaken for a drunk woman is at 1 Samuel 1:13-14.

Psalm 113 opens the Hallel (Psalms 113-118), sung at Passover.

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