20 Bible Verses About Having a Baby



  • Sarah was ninety when Isaac was promised (Genesis 17:17), and at his birth she said, “God has brought me laughter” (Genesis 21:6).
  • When Mary greeted Elizabeth, the baby in Elizabeth’s womb leaped, and Elizabeth said it leaped for joy (Luke 1:41-44).
  • In Psalm 139:13 the psalmist thanks God for knitting him together in his mother’s womb.
  • The Hebrew midwives Shiphrah and Puah refused Pharaoh’s order to kill newborn boys, and God gave them families of their own (Exodus 1:17-21).
  • Jesus used a woman in labour whose anguish turns to joy at the birth to describe his disciples’ grief and their joy at seeing him again (John 16:21-22).

The Bible treats a child as a gift from the Lord and describes God at work in a child before birth. Psalm 139:13 says to God, “you knit me together in my mother’s womb,” and several births answer a prayer or a promise, as with Hannah (1 Samuel 1:27) and Elizabeth (Luke 1:13). Pregnancy and labour appear too. Rebekah takes a question about her pregnancy to the Lord (Genesis 25:22-23), Elizabeth’s baby leaps in the womb at Mary’s greeting (Luke…

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