Bible Verses to Celebrate a New Baby or Baby Shower
Congratulate a new, or soon-to-be, birth with encouraging Bible verses celebrating the joy of having a baby! Scripture tells us that children are a blessing and heritage from the Lord to be praised as truly a gift from God. Find the best Bible verse for a baby in the collection of scriptures below:
"Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward." (Psalm 127:3)
"For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well." (Psalm 139:13-14)
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5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
3 Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him. 4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are children born in one's youth. 5 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
21 A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.
14 Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
6 Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.
4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
15 But when God, who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me by his grace, was pleased
6 Children's children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.
14 He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth,
2 Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
5 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
13 All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace.
36 He took a little child whom he placed among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said to them, 37 "Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me."