What Does the Bible Say About Newborns?

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 4 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.

1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 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.

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.

Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her children come out, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Acts 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

Luke 23:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

Hosea 9:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Ezekiel 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.

Lamentations 2:20 ESV / 2 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?

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 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.”

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

Isaiah 13:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.

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.

Psalm 137:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

2 Kings 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

At that time Menahem sacked Tiphsah and all who were in it and its territory from Tirzah on, because they did not open it to him. Therefore he sacked it, and he ripped open all the women in it who were pregnant.

2 Kings 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel. You will set on fire their fortresses, and you will kill their young men with the sword and dash in pieces their little ones and rip open their pregnant women.”

2 Kings 2:23-24 ESV / 2 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.

1 Samuel 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

Deuteronomy 28:53 ESV / 2 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.

Numbers 31:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

Numbers 25:4-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the Lord, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.” And Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.” And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting. When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. ...

Numbers 15:32-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. And the Lord said to Moses, “The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.”

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You shall not murder.

Exodus 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying,

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 2:1-3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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

James 4:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Acts 17:1-34 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.” And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks and not a few of the leading women. But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. ...

34 Bible Verses about Newborns

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 23:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hosea 9:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Lamentations 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 13:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 137:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Kings 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Kings 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 Samuel 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 28:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 31:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 25:4-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 15:32-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:1-3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 4:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 17:1-34 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Newborns

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Genesis 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Lamentations 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 137:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hosea 13:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Exodus 21:22-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 23:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hosea 9:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 9:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Lamentations 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 13:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 137:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 51:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Kings 15:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Kings 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 Samuel 15:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 28:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 31:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 25:4-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 15:32-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:1-3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 4:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 17:1-34 ESV / 1 helpful vote