20 Bible Verses About Having a Baby

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…