Bible verses about "childbearing" | Goodspeed

¹⁴ So I would have young women marry and have children and keep house and avoid giving our opponents any excuse for abusing us.

¹⁴ This will bring gladness and delight to you, and many will rejoice over his birth. ¹⁵ For he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He will drink no wine or strong drink, but he will be filled with the holy Spirit from his very birth, ¹⁶ and he will turn many of Israel's descendants to the Lord their God. ¹⁷ He will go before him with the spirit and the power of Elijah, to reconcile fathers to their children, and to bring the disobedient back to the wisdom of upright men, to make a people perfectly ready for the Lord." ¹⁸ Zechariah said to the angel, "How am I to know that this is so? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in life." ¹⁹ The angel answered, "I am Gabriel. I stand in the very presence of God. I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. ²⁰ Now you will keep silent and be unable to speak until the day when this happens, because you have not believed what I have said, for it will all be fulfilled in due time." ²¹ The people were waiting for Zechariah, and wondering that he stayed so long in the sanctuary. ²² But when he came out he could not speak to them, and they knew that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. For his part, he kept making signs to them, and remained dumb. ²³ And when his period of service was over, he went back to his home. ²⁴ Soon afterward his wife Elizabeth began to expect a child, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months. ²⁵ "This is what the Lord has done for me," she said, "now that he has deigned to remove the disgrace I have endured." ²⁶ In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, ²⁷ to a maiden there who was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The maiden's name was Mary. ²⁸ And the angel went into the town and said to her, "Good morning, favored woman! The Lord be with you!" ²⁹ But she was startled at what he said, and wondered what this greeting meant. ³⁰ And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have gained God's approval. ³¹ You are to become a mother and you will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus. ³² He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his forefather David, ³³ and he will reign over Jacob's house forever; his reign will have no end." ³⁴ Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, when I have no husband?" ³⁵ The angel answered, "The holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. For that reason your child will be called holy, and the Son of God. ³⁶ And your relative, Elizabeth, although she is old, is going to give birth to a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was said to be barren. ³⁷ For nothing is ever impossible for God." ³⁸ And Mary said, "I am the Lord's slave. Let it be as you say." Then the angel left her. ³⁹ In those days Mary set out and hurried to the hill-country, to a town in Judah, ⁴⁰ and she went to Zechariah's house and greeted Elizabeth. ⁴¹ When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the babe stirred within her. And Elizabeth was filled with the holy Spirit ⁴² and she gave a great cry, and said, "You are the most favored of women, And blessed is your child! ⁴³ Who am I, To have the mother of my Lord come to me? ⁴⁴ "For the moment your greeting reached my ears, The child stirred with joy within me! ⁴⁵ Blessed is she who has believed, For what the Lord has promised her will be fulfilled!"

²⁸ But if you do marry, there is no sin in that. And if a girl marries, it is no sin. But those who marry will have worldly trouble, which I would like to spare you.

²² You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord, ²³ for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, which is his body, and is saved by him. ²⁴ Just as the church is in subjection to Christ, so married women must be, in everything, to their husbands. ²⁵ You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her, ²⁶ to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him, ²⁷ in order to bring the church to himself in all her beauty, without a flaw or a wrinkle or anything of the kind, but to be consecrated and faultless. ²⁸ That is the way husbands ought to love their wives—as if they were their own bodies; a man who loves his wife is really loving himself, ²⁹ for no one ever hates his own person, but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ does with the church, ³⁰ for we are parts of his body. ³¹ Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one. ³² This is a great secret, but I understand it of Christ and the church. ³³ But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.

¹³ For Adam was formed first, and then Eve; ¹⁴ and it was not Adam who was deceived, it was the woman who was deluded and fell into sin. ¹⁵ But they will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to have faith and to be loving and holy, and sensible as well.

¹⁵ But they will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to have faith and to be loving and holy, and sensible as well.