Bible Verses about “being pregnant”
The Bible contains 20 verses about being pregnant across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.”
“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.”
“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.”
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, [and] I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”
“As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man; so [are] children of the youth.”
“Happy [is] the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.”
“My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.”
“Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.”
“¶ And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:”
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.”
“Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,”
“And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.”
“For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:”
“Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.”
“And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,”
“¶ If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart [from her], and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges [determine].”
“And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:”
“And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.”
“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”
“Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.”