100 Bible Verses about Newborn Baby

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 4,774 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.”

Psalm 127:3 ESV / 3,828 helpful votes

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

James 1:17 ESV / 3,168 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Psalm 127:3-5 ESV / 2,904 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.

Matthew 19:14 ESV / 2,717 helpful votes

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

1 Samuel 1:27-28 ESV / 2,404 helpful votes

For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him. Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 2,358 helpful votes

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

Psalm 8:2 ESV / 2,303 helpful votes

Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

Ecclesiastes 11:5 ESV / 2,290 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.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 1,946 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

John 16:21 ESV / 1,914 helpful votes

When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 1,905 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 1,865 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 1,851 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

1 Samuel 1:27 ESV / 1,610 helpful votes

For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him.

Matthew 18:10 ESV / 1,609 helpful votes

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 2:40 ESV / 1,459 helpful votes

And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 1,370 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Mark 9:36-37 ESV / 1,302 helpful votes

And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

Isaiah 44:24 ESV / 1,289 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,

Proverbs 29:17 ESV / 1,271 helpful votes

Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart.

Luke 1:44 ESV / 1,251 helpful votes

For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Mark 10:16 ESV / 1,224 helpful votes

And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

John 3:16 ESV / 1,216 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 1:8-9 ESV / 1,176 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

Psalm 139:1-24 ESV / 1,108 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. ...

Luke 2:23 ESV / 1,106 helpful votes

(as it is written in the Law of the Lord, “Every male who first opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”)

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 ESV / 1,064 helpful votes

And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Isaiah 49:1 ESV / 1,031 helpful votes

Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.

1 John 3:2 ESV / 955 helpful votes

Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Proverbs 17:6 ESV / 951 helpful votes

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Ephesians 6:4 ESV / 944 helpful votes

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

Numbers 6:24 ESV / 936 helpful votes

The Lord bless you and keep you;

Proverbs 23:22-24 ESV / 897 helpful votes

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who fathers a wise son will be glad in him.

Mark 10:14 ESV / 888 helpful votes

But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Galatians 1:15 ESV / 871 helpful votes

But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 835 helpful votes

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Exodus 2:6 ESV / 834 helpful votes

When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews' children.”

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 808 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Matthew 11:25 ESV / 731 helpful votes

At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;

Luke 18:15-17 ESV / 719 helpful votes

Now they were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them. And when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”

Ephesians 6:1-3 ESV / 710 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 705 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 703 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 690 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 688 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Numbers 6:24-26 ESV / 673 helpful votes

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Psalm 113:9 ESV / 663 helpful votes

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

Job 31:15 ESV / 645 helpful votes

Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 640 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 638 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Exodus 20:12 ESV / 629 helpful votes

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Luke 1:31 ESV / 625 helpful votes

And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.

Deuteronomy 11:19 ESV / 625 helpful votes

You shall teach them to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house, and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Matthew 18:12-14 ESV / 615 helpful votes

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Colossians 3:20 ESV / 608 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 597 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.

Isaiah 49:15 ESV / 570 helpful votes

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 566 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Isaiah 54:13 ESV / 563 helpful votes

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.

Hebrews 11:23 ESV / 557 helpful votes

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 539 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Proverbs 6:20 ESV / 533 helpful votes

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching.

Psalm 115:14 ESV / 517 helpful votes

May the Lord give you increase, you and your children!

Psalm 139:13-14 ESV / 466 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Luke 18:17 ESV / 465 helpful votes

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 452 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Psalm 127:4 ESV / 445 helpful votes

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth.

3 John 1:4 ESV / 440 helpful votes

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

Mark 10:13-16 ESV / 430 helpful votes

And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

Ephesians 6:1-4 ESV / 424 helpful votes

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Luke 1:41-42 ESV / 422 helpful votes

And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 402 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

2 Kings 2:23-24 ESV / 394 helpful votes

He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

Psalm 46:5 ESV / 386 helpful votes

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.

Psalm 127:1-5 ESV / 385 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. 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 Corinthians 3:1 ESV / 380 helpful votes

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 361 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Deuteronomy 28:53 ESV / 359 helpful votes

And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 359 helpful votes

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—

Isaiah 13:16 ESV / 347 helpful votes

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

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 344 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Matthew 18:3 ESV / 330 helpful votes

And said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 1:14 ESV / 324 helpful votes

And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth,

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 323 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 323 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.

Psalm 127:5 ESV / 323 helpful votes

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.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 305 helpful votes

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV / 303 helpful votes

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Ephesians 3:17-19 ESV / 289 helpful votes

So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Lamentations 2:20 ESV / 289 helpful votes

Look, O Lord, and see! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat the fruit of their womb, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Psalm 100:1 ESV / 282 helpful votes

A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!

John 14:27 ESV / 280 helpful votes

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

1 John 1:4 ESV / 273 helpful votes

And we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

Matthew 18:5 ESV / 256 helpful votes

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me,

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 248 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 237 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Luke 1:80 ESV / 236 helpful votes

And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

Romans 2:20 ESV / 231 helpful votes

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 229 helpful votes

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

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