What does the Bible Say About Pro-Life?
Today, we’re tackling a subject that stirs unease in many, but it’s one we can’t shy away from. Truth be told, I find it hard to stomach debates over the sanctity of life, it feels absurd that we’d even need to argue the worth of a human soul. On abortion, Scripture holds a single, unwavering stance: pro-life. The idea that Jesus would’ve backed choice over life doesn’t hold up, it’s unthinkable. The pro-life verses we’re sharing below stand firm on guarding the unborn, honoring the dignity of life from its very start, and beyond. If you want to dig deeper into this, take a look at some Bible verses about life beginning at conception.
Psalm 139:13-14 (NIV) – “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
Jeremiah 1:5 (ESV) – “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.”
Genesis 1:27 (NKJV) – “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
Exodus 20:13 (NASB) – “You shall not murder.”
Psalm 127:3 (KJV) – “Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.”
Job 31:15 (NLT) – “Did not the same God who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One form us both within our mothers?”
Isaiah 44:24 (Holman) – “This is what the Lord says—your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the Lord, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself.”
Luke 1:41 (NIV) – “When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Proverbs 24:11-12 (ESV) – “Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, ‘Behold, we did not know this,’ does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?”
Psalm 22:10 (NKJV) – “I was cast upon You from birth. From my mother’s womb You have been my God.”
Genesis 9:6 (NASB) – “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed, for in the image of God He made man.”
Isaiah 49:1 (KJV) – “Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.”
Matthew 19:14 (NLT) – “But Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children.'”
Psalm 82:3-4 (Holman) – “Provide justice for the needy and the fatherless; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute. Rescue the poor and helpless; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”
Exodus 21:22-23 (NIV) – “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life.”
Deuteronomy 30:19 (ESV) – “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live.”
Psalm 106:38 (NKJV) – “And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.”
Job 10:8-9 (NASB) – “Your hands fashioned and made me altogether, and would You destroy me? Remember now, that You have made me as clay; and would You turn me into dust again?”
Proverbs 31:8-9 (KJV) – “Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”
Luke 1:15 (NLT) – “For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother’s womb.”
Psalm 139:16 (Holman) – “Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in your book and planned before a single one of them began.”
Isaiah 46:3-4 (NIV) – “Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.”
Genesis 25:23 (ESV) – “And the Lord said to her, ‘Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other, the older shall serve the younger.'”
Proverbs 6:16-17 (NKJV) – “These six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood.”
Matthew 18:10 (NASB) – “See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.”
Psalm 8:2 (KJV) – “Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.”
Isaiah 44:2 (NLT) – “The Lord who made you and helps you says: Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, O dear Israel, my chosen one.”
Job 12:10 (Holman) – “The life of every living thing is in his hand, as well as the breath of all humanity.”
Psalm 36:9 (NIV) – “For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.”
Ecclesiastes 11:5 (ESV) – “As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.”
Genesis 2:7 (NKJV) – “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”
Psalm 71:6 (NASB) – “By You I have been sustained from my birth; You are He who took me from my mother’s womb; my praise is continually of You.”
Proverbs 14:31 (KJV) – “He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.”
Matthew 25:40 (NLT) – “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’”
Psalm 113:9 (Holman) – “He gives the childless woman a household, making her the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!”
Isaiah 40:11 (NIV) – “He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.”
Job 33:4 (ESV) – “The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”
Psalm 128:3 (NKJV) – “Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the very heart of your house, your children like olive plants all around your table.”
Deuteronomy 32:39 (NASB) – “See now that I, I am He, and there is no god besides Me; it is I who put to death and give life.”
Luke 12:7 (KJV) – “But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.”
Psalm 100:3 (NLT) – “Acknowledge that the Lord is God! He made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.”
Isaiah 64:8 (Holman) – “Yet Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we all are the work of your hands.”
Genesis 4:10 (NIV) – “The Lord said, ‘What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.’”
Psalm 41:1 (ESV) – “Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the Lord delivers him.”
Proverbs 17:5 (NKJV) – “He who mocks the poor reproaches his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.”
John 10:10 (NASB) – “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
Psalm 119:73 (KJV) – “Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.”
Hosea 13:16 (NLT) – “The people of Samaria must bear the consequences of their guilt because they rebelled against their God. They will be killed by an invading army, their little ones dashed to death against the ground, their pregnant women ripped open by swords.”
Psalm 147:13 (Holman) – “For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your children within you.”
Acts 17:25 (NIV) – “And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.”
