The Bible provides numerous insights and divine wisdom regarding childbirth, portraying it as a miraculous gift from God and a significant event in the lives of families. These scriptures offer encouragement and strength to those embarking on the journey of parenthood, as well as acknowledging the divine role in creating life.
Here are Bible verses that reflect on childbirth and God’s blessings through this sacred process.
Bible Verses About Childbirth
1. Genesis 1:28 – Be Fruitful and Multiply
“God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.’” – Genesis 1:28
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Genesis 9:7 – “As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”
Genesis 35:11 – “And God said to him, ‘I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number.'”
2. Exodus 1:19 – Hebrew Women Bear Children Quickly
“The midwives answered Pharaoh, ‘Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.’” – Exodus 1:19
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Exodus 1:17 – “The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.”
Exodus 1:20-21 – “So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.”
Genesis 38:28 – “As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it on his wrist and said, ‘This one came out first.'”
3. 1 Samuel 1:27 – God Answers Prayers for Children
“I prayed for this child, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of him.” – 1 Samuel 1:27
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1 Samuel 1:20 – “So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, ‘Because I asked the LORD for him.'”
Psalm 6:9 – “The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer.”
Psalm 66:19 – “But God has surely listened and has heard my prayer.”
4. Isaiah 66:9 – Birth and Creation
“Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?” says the LORD. “Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?” says your God.” – Isaiah 66:9
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Micah 4:9-10 – “Why do you now cry aloud—is there no king among you? Has your ruler perished, that pain seizes you like that of a woman in labor?”
Galatians 4:19 – “My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,”
5. Psalm 139:13 – Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” – Psalm 139:13
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Psalm 139:14 – “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
Job 10:11 – “You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.”
6. Luke 1:14 – Joy and Delight in Children
“He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth.” – Luke 1:14
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Proverbs 23:25 – “May your father and mother rejoice; may she who gave you birth be joyful!”
Isaiah 9:6 – “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given.”
7. Genesis 30:22 – God Remembers and Opens the Womb
“Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.” – Genesis 30:22
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1 Samuel 1:19 – “Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the LORD and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.”
Luke 1:13 – “But the angel said to him: ‘Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.'”
8. John 16:21 – Joy of Birth
“A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.” – John 16:21
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Isaiah 66:14 – “When you see this, your heart will rejoice and you will flourish like grass.”
Psalms 113:9 – “He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children.”
Luke 1:57-58 – “When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son.”
9. Proverbs 31:28 – Blessings of Motherhood
“Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.” – Proverbs 31:28
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Proverbs 31:29 – “‘Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.'”
Titus 2:4 – “Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children.”
10. Exodus 23:26 – Blessings of Fruitfulness
“None will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span.” – Exodus 23:26
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Psalms 105:24 – “The LORD made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes.”
Psalm 128:3 – “Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.”
11. 1 Timothy 2:15 – Saved Through Childbearing
“But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.” – 1 Timothy 2:15
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1 Corinthians 11:11-12 – “Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.”
Titus 2:11-12 – “For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.”
12. Isaiah 49:15 – God’s Comfort in Parenthood
“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!” – Isaiah 49:15
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Psalms 27:10 – “Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.”
1 Kings 3:26 – “The woman whose son was alive was deeply moved out of love for her son and said to the king, ‘Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don’t kill him!'”
Isaiah 66:13 – “As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you.”
13. Psalm 22:9-10 – Trust from Birth
“Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast. From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.” – Psalm 22:9-10
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Psalm 71:6 – “From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb.”
Isaiah 46:3 – “Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born.”
Job 10:8-12 – “Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?”
14. Genesis 18:14 – Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord?
“Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will return to you at the appointed time next year, and Sarah will have a son.” – Genesis 18:14
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Jeremiah 32:27 – “I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?”
Matthew 19:26 – “Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'”
15. Psalm 113:9 – A Joyful Mother of Children
“He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the LORD.” – Psalm 113:9
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Genesis 21:6 – “Sarah said, ‘God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.'”
Isaiah 54:1 – “‘Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,’ says the LORD.”
1 Samuel 2:5 – “Those who were full hire themselves out for food, but those who were hungry are hungry no more. She who was barren has borne seven children, but she who has had many sons pines away.”
16. Jeremiah 1:5 – Formed in the Womb
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” – Jeremiah 1:5
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Galatians 1:15 – “But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased.”
Psalms 71:6 – “From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb.”
Isaiah 44:2 – “This is what the LORD says—he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you.”
17. Ruth 4:13 – God’s Blessing in Marriage
“So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he made love to her, the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.” – Ruth 4:13
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Genesis 29:31 – “When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.”
Genesis 30:2 – “Jacob became angry with her and said, ‘Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?'”
Luke 1:24 – “After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion.”
18. Luke 2:6-7 – The Birth of Jesus
“While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.” – Luke 2:6-7
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Matthew 1:25 – “But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.”
Isaiah 7:14 – “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.”
Matthew 2:11 – “On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.”
19. 1 Samuel 2:20-21 – Blessing for Future Children
“Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, ‘May the LORD give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed for and gave to the LORD.’ Then they would go home. And the LORD was gracious to Hannah; she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.” – 1 Samuel 2:20-21
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1 Samuel 1:17 – “Eli answered, ‘Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of him.'”
Job 42:12-13 – “The LORD blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part.”
Genesis 24:60 – “And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, ‘Our sister, may you increase to thousands upon thousands; may your offspring possess the cities of their enemies.'”
20. Galatians 4:4 – Christ Born of a Woman
“But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law.” – Galatians 4:4
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John 1:14 – “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.”
Matthew 1:23 – “‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel.'”
Romans 1:3 – “Regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life was a descendant of David,”
21. Isaiah 26:17 – The Pains of Childbirth
“As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her pain, so were we in your presence, LORD.” – Isaiah 26:17
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Micah 4:10 – “Writhe in agony, Daughter Zion, like a woman in labor.”
22. Job 31:15 – The Creator of All
“Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?” – Job 31:15
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Psalms 100:3 – “Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his.”
Psalms 139:13 – “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
23. Deuteronomy 7:13-14 – Prosperity and Offspring
“He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine, and olive oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.” – Deuteronomy 7:13-14
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Genesis 9:1 – “Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.'”
Malachi 3:10-11 – “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the LORD Almighty.”
24. Genesis 4:1 – The Beginning of Childbirth
“Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, ‘With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man.’” – Genesis 4:1
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Genesis 4:25 – “Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth.”
Genesis 5:3 – “When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.”
Genesis 30:1 – “When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister.”
25. Genesis 17:16 – The Promise of a Child
“I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” – Genesis 17:16
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Genesis 18:10 – “Then one of them said, ‘I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.'”
Genesis 21:1-2 – “Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age.”
Hebrews 11:11 – “And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise.”
26. Hosea 13:13 – Woes of Childbirth and Wisdom
“Pains as of a woman in childbirth come to him, but he is a child without wisdom; when the time arrives, he does not come to the opening of the womb.” – Hosea 13:13
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Isaiah 37:3 – “They told him, ‘This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.'”
Jeremiah 4:31 – “I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child— the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath.”
27. Isaiah 40:11 – God as a Shepherd
“He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.” – Isaiah 40:11
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Ezekiel 34:15 – “I myself will tend my sheep and have them lie down, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
John 10:11 – “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
Psalm 23:1 – “The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.”
28. Numbers 6:24-26 – The Priestly Blessing
“The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.” – Numbers 6:24-26
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Psalms 121:7-8 – “The LORD will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”
2 Corinthians 13:14 – “May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”
Philippians 4:7 – “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
29. Luke 1:36 – Nothing Is Impossible for God
“Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.” – Luke 1:36
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Luke 1:37 – “For no word from God will ever fail.”
30. Exodus 1:7 – The Growth of Israel
“But the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.” – Exodus 1:7
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Exodus 1:12 – “But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread.”
Genesis 46:3 – “I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.”
Genesis 47:27 – “Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.”
31. Psalm 127:3-5 – Children Are a Heritage
“Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.” – Psalm 127:3-5
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Genesis 33:5 – “Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. ‘Who are these with you?’ he asked. Jacob answered, ‘They are the children God has graciously given your servant.'”
Proverbs 17:6 – “Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.”
32. Romans 8:22 – Creation Groaning in Labor
“We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” – Romans 8:22
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Jeremiah 12:11 – “It will be made a wasteland, parched and desolate before me; the whole land will be laid waste because there is no one who cares.”
Isaiah 24:4-5 – “The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the heavens languish with the earth.”
Psalm 9:2 – “I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.”
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Final Thought
Childbirth is a profound moment, weaving the miraculous and divine in the fabric of human experience. These Bible verses remind us that every birth is an expression of God’s creativity and love. Through them, we find reassurance in God’s great plan for each new life entering the world. Parents embarking on this sacred journey, seeking divine guidance and strength, can draw comfort from the Scriptures, understanding that God’s grace accompanies them every step of the way.
From the early calls to be fruitful to the joy and blessing of welcoming a child, these verses highlight the distinct honor and responsibility entrusted to parents. They also reflect the broader spiritual truth of renewal, creation, and God’s unending love for humanity. As we embrace each birth as part of God’s grand design, we are reminded of the sanctity of life and the importance of nurturing it with love, wisdom, and faith.