In the biblical account, human life is valued and sanctified from its earliest stages. According to Genesis 2:7, God breathes life into Adam, forming him into a living being, while Jeremiah 1:5 reveals that God knows and sets apart individuals even before they are born. The Psalms, particularly Psalms 139:13-16, describe how God intricately weaves and forms each person in the womb, emphasizing the divine involvement in human development from conception. Exodus 21:22-25 further underscores the value of unborn life, providing guidelines for protecting it.
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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows. But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life— eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.