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14 Bible Verses About Becoming a Parent

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  • Psalm 139:13-16 and Jeremiah 1:5 speak of God knowing a person before birth; Jeremiah 1:5 is spoken to Jeremiah about his call as a prophet.
  • Hannah prayed for a son at Shiloh, named him Samuel “because I asked the Lord for him”, and gave him to the Lord as she had vowed (1 Samuel 1).
  • Psalm 127:3 calls children “a heritage from the Lord”, and Jacob calls his children those “God has graciously given” (Genesis 33:5).
  • Elizabeth’s unborn son “leaped for joy” when Mary greeted her (Luke 1:44).
  • Isaiah 66:13 and Isaiah 49:15 compare the Lord’s care for Zion with a mother’s care for her child.

Scripture records parents praying for a child, waiting for one and receiving one, and it treats the child as God’s gift. Hannah named her son Samuel, “because I asked the Lord for him” (1 Samuel 1:20), Zechariah was told “your prayer has been heard” (Luke 1:13), and Sarah bore a son in old age (Genesis 21:6). Luke 1:44 and John 16:21 speak of pregnancy and birth: an unborn child leaping in the womb, and a mother’s anguish giving way to…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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