17 Bible Verses for Pregnancy, Including the One That Admits Nobody Understands It

The Bible’s own verdict on pregnancy is that nobody understands it. “As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God,” says Ecclesiastes. Scripture is full of confidence about who is at work in there and unbothered about explaining the mechanism to us. The seventeen passages below keep that shape: what is said about the child, what is said to the mother,…