What Does the Bible Say About Child Born With A Birth Defect?

John 9:2-3 ESV / 38 helpful votes

And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Exodus 4:11 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Ecclesiastes 11:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes

As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Romans 9:20-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Romans 5:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Acts 3:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple.

John 9:1-3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Isaiah 1:1-66:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

1 John 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Titus 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Acts 5:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Samaria shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. ...

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Psalm 113:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

John 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

John 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” ...

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Isaiah 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

34 Bible Verses about Child Born With A Birth Defect

John 9:2-3 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Exodus 4:11 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 11:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Romans 9:20-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Romans 5:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Acts 3:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 9:1-3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-66:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 5:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 113:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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34 Bible Verses about Child Born With A Birth Defect

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Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 9:2-3 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Exodus 4:11 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 11:5 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Romans 9:20-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Romans 5:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Acts 3:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 9:1-3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Isaiah 1:1-66:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Titus 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 5:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 113:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Malachi 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes