30 Bible Verses Celebrating Newborn Babies

And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.

And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.

Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who made all things.”

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.

My little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

You shall serve the LORD your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

For this child I prayed, and the LORD has granted me my petition that I made to him.

But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.”

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

May the LORD give you increase, you and your children!

And they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.

Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether.

And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him.

And he took them in his arms and began blessing them, laying his hands on them.

For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation.

He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LORD!

There is no experience like having a newborn at home.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

The greatest trauma of all is the loss of childhood, of the newborn.

Having a newborn is like falling in love again, both with your partner and your child.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.