Bible verses about "conception" | Thomson

¹ Now the Lord visited Sarah as he had said. And the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken,

²⁷ So God made man. After an image of God he made him. A male and a female he made them.

³ And an angel of the Lord appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold, thou art barren and hast never had a child. But thou shalt conceive a son. ⁴ Now therefore be careful not to drink wine, nor any fermented liquor, nor eat any thing which is unclean. ⁵ For behold thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and on his head a razor shall not come; for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb. And he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. ⁶ And the woman went, and told her husband, saying, There came to me a man of God, and his visage was like that of an angel of God, very awful, so that I did not ask him whence he was, nor did he tell me his name. But he said to me, Behold thou art with ⁷ child, and shalt bear a son. Now therefore thou must not drink wine nor any fermented liquor, nor eat any thing unclean; for the child shall be consecrated to God, from the womb to the day of his death. ⁸ Whereupon Manoe prayed to the Lord, and said, Lord Adonaie! grant me that the man of God, whom thou didst send, may come to us again, and instruct us what we shall do to the child which is to be born. ⁹ And God hearkened to the voice of Manoe, and the angel of God came again to the woman. Now she was sitting in the field, and Manoe her husband was not with her. ¹⁰ So the woman hasted, and ran and told her husband, and said to him, The man hath appeared to me, who came to me before. ¹¹ Upon which Manoe arose, and went with his wife, and when he came to the man, he said to him, Art thou the man who spoke to my wife? And the angel said, I am. ¹² Then Manoe said, Now the thing will come to pass. How is the child to be educated, and what is he to do? ¹³ And the angel of the Lord said to Manoe, He must abstain from all the things which I mentioned to this woman. ¹⁴ He must eat nothing which proceedeth from the vine, nor drink wine, nor any fermented liquor, nor eat any thing which is unclean. He must observe all that I have commanded her. ¹⁵ Then Manoe said to the angel of the Lord, Let us detain thee here till we set before thee a kid of the goats. ¹⁶ And the angel of the Lord said to Manoe, Though thou detain me I cannot eat of thy victuals; but if thou wouldst offer a whole burnt offering, offer it to the Lord. Because Manoe did not know that he was an angel of the Lord, ¹⁷ therefore Manoe said to him, What is thy name, that when thy word cometh to pass we may honour thee? ¹⁸ And the angel of the Lord said to Manoe, Why askest thou my name? It is indeed Wonderful. ¹⁹ Then Manoe took the kid of the goats, with the sacrifice of flour, and carried them up upon the rock for the Lord. And he went apart to offer the sacrifice, while Manoe and his wife were looking on. ²⁰ And when the flame ascended above the altar, up towards heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. When Manoe and his wife saw this, they fell flat with their face to the ground. ²¹ And as the angel of the Lord no more appeared to Manoe and his wife, Manoe then knew that he was an angel of the Lord; ²² whereupon he said to his wife, We shall surely die, for we have seen God. ²³ But his wife said to him, Had it been the will of the Lord to cause us to die, he would not have received at our hand a whole burnt offering, and a sacrifice; nor would he have shewed us all these things; nor would he, as on this occasion, have caused us to hear these things. ²⁴ So the woman bore a son, and called his name Sampson; and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him;

¹⁹ And they arose early in the morning, and worshipped the Lord, and set out on their journey. And when Elkana came to his house at Armathaim, he knew his wife Anna; and the Lord remembered her,

¹² The righteous shall bloom like a palm tree; and be multiplied like a cedar on Lebanon. ¹³ Being planted by the house of the Lord they shall flourish in the courts of our God. ¹⁴ In a vigorous old age they shall still multiply; and continue prosperous;

³⁶ Now behold Elizabeth thy cousin, even she hath conceived a son in her old age. And this is the sixth month with her, who hath been called barren.

²⁴ And after these days, his wife Elizabeth conceived; and kept herself retired five months, saying, ²⁵ The Lord hath dealt thus with me in the days in which he looked on me to take away my reproach among men.

²⁸ And God blessed them saying, "Increase and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all the cattle, and all the earth, and all the reptiles which creep on the earth."

²⁶ There shall not be a man childless, nor a woman barren in thy land. The number of your days I will completely fulfil.

¹⁴ Thou shalt be blessed above all the nations. There shall not be a male without a progeny, nor a female barren among you, or your cattle.

²⁰ and she conceived, and at the appointed time bore a son, and called his name Samuel, because, said she, I asked him of the Lord God of Sabbaoth.

³ Behold sons are an heritage of the Lord; a reward of the fruit of the womb. ⁴ Like shafts in the hands of a mighty man, so are the sons of them who were shaken off. ⁵ Happy he who shall satisfy his desire with these. They shall not be put to shame, when they speak to their enemies in the gates.

⁹ Who settleth the barren woman in a family making her a joyful mother of children.

³⁷ For with God nothing is impossible.

³¹ Now behold thou shall conceive, and bear a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. ³² He will be great and will be called the son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. ³³ And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom there shall be no end. ³⁴ Then Mary said to the angel, How can this be, since I know not man. ³⁵ And the angel answering, said to her, A holy spirit will come upon thee, and the power of the Most High will overshadow thee, therefore the holy offspring will be called the son of God.

²² Now God had remembered Rachel and God hearkened to her and opened her womb.

²¹ And Isaak intreated the Lord for Rebekka his wife because she was barren, and the Lord hearkened to him; And Rebekka his wife conceived

¹³ Because thou, Lord, hast possessed my reins; hast supported me from my mother's womb; ¹⁴ I will adore thee, for thou art awfully wonderful. Thy works are wonderful; as my soul well knoweth. ¹⁵ From thee was not concealed this bone of mine; which thou in secret didst fashion. ¹⁶ When my substance was in the lowest parts of the earth; thine eyes beheld the unwrought part of me. When on thy book all shall be enrolled; they will day by day be fashioned.

⁵ "Before I formed thee in the womb, I knew thee, and before thou wast born I hallowed thee. I have appointed thee a prophet for nations."