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

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…