Bible Verses About Struggles with Infertility

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

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

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

And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

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

He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

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.

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.

For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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.

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

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

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.

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

Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

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

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

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

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

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.