Bible Verses About Family Expansion

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.

And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

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.

And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the Lord in their third generation.

And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;