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Bible Verses About childless

This collection includes 50 passages about childless. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

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But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

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For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

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Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.

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Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

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Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

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Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.

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Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

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Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.

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Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

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And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

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He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord.

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And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

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Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

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Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.

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The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

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But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

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Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

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And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.

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And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.

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And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

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That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

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Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

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I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

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Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

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And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

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And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

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There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

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Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

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And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

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And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.

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There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

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There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

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And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

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They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

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For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

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From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

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