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Bible Verses About Infertility

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

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And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

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

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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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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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For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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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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So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

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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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And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

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But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

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And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the Lord.

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

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Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

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Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

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

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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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Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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

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And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

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And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

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Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

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But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.

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Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

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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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And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

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And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.

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So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bare a son.

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And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

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Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

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But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

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Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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

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For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:

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Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

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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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And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

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And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

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