Babies are a precious gift, embodying innocence, purity, and new beginnings. In the Bible, they symbolize hope, joy, and the wonder of life. This collection of 120 Bible verses about babies highlights their beauty and significance in God’s plan. Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, or simply love babies, these verses will uplift your heart and remind you of God’s love and care.

Birth of Babies and Blessings

• Isaiah 44:2 – “This is what the Lord says— he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: Do not be afraid, Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.”
• Psalm 127:3 – “Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from him.”
• Luke 1:31 – “You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.”
• Genesis 4:1 – “Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, ‘With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.'”
• 1 Samuel 1:27 – “I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.”
• Luke 2:12 – “This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
• Jeremiah 1:5 – “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.”
• Job 10:12 – “You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.”
• Galatians 1:15 – “But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased.”
• Matthew 19:14 – “Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.'”

God’s Love and Care for Babies

• Psalm 22:9-10 – “Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you, even at my mother’s breast. From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.”
• Isaiah 49:15 – “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!”
• Luke 1:44 – “As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.”
• Exodus 2:6 – “She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. ‘This is one of the Hebrew babies,’ she said.”
• Isaiah 46:3 – “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.”
• Psalm 139:13-14 – “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.”
• Matthew 18:2-3 – “He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.'”
• Matthew 18:10 – “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.”
• Luke 18:15-16 – “People were also bringing babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them. When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. But Jesus called the children to him and said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.'”
• Psalm 8:2 – “From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.”

Miraculous Conceptions of Babies

• Genesis 17:19 – “Then God said, ‘Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.'”
• Genesis 21:2 – “Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him.”
• Judges 13:3 – “The angel of the Lord appeared to her and said, ‘You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.'”
• Luke 1:36 – “Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.”
• Genesis 18:10-14 – “‘I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.’ Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. […] Is anything too hard for the Lord?'”
• 1 Samuel 1:20 – “So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, ‘Because I asked the Lord for him.'”
• Luke 1:24-25 – “After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. ‘The Lord has done this for me,’ she said. ‘In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.'”
• Matthew 1:18 – “This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.”
• Luke 2:7 – “And she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.”

Prophetic Announcements of Babies and Responses

• Matthew 1:20-21 – “But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.'”
• Luke 1:30-31 – “But the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.'”
• Luke 1:42 – “In a loud voice she exclaimed: ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!'”
• Luke 1:68-69 – “‘Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come to his people and redeemed them. He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David.'”
• Matthew 2:9-11 – “After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed.”
• Luke 1:76-77 – “‘And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins.'”
• Luke 2:25-26 – “Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah.”
• Luke 2:38 – “Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.”
• Isaiah 9:6 – “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”
• Genesis 16:11 – “The angel of the Lord also said to her: ‘You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.'”

Early Life of Babies and Childhood

• Luke 2:40 – “And the child grew and became strong; he was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.”
• Exodus 2:9-10 – “Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, ‘Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.’ So the woman took the baby and nursed him. When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, ‘I drew him out of the water.'”
• 1 Samuel 2:21 – “And the Lord was gracious to Hannah; she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.”
• Judges 13:24 – “The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the Lord blessed him.”
• 1 Kings 3:7-9 – “Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. […] So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong.”
• Genesis 21:8 – “The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.”
• Luke 1:80 – “And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the wilderness until he appeared publicly to Israel.”
• 2 Chronicles 34:1-2 – “Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and followed the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.”
• Judges 6:24 – “So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.”
• Genesis 37:3 – “Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate robe for him.”

Protection and Deliverance of Babies

• Exodus 1:17 – “The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.”
• Matthew 2:13-14 – “When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. ‘Get up,’ he said, ‘take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.’ So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt.”
• Acts 7:19 – “He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.”
• Exodus 2:3 – “But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.”
• Joshua 2:6 – “But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.”
• 1 Samuel 22:3 – “From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, ‘Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?'”
• Judges 9:5 – “He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham, the youngest son, survived because he hid.”
• 2 Kings 11:2-3 – “But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Jehoram and sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the royal princes who were about to be murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah; so he was not killed.”
• Jeremiah 1:19 – “‘They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,’ declares the Lord.”
• Psalm 27:5 – “For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.”

Names and Naming Babies

• Genesis 4:25 – “Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, ‘God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.'”
• Genesis 30:6 – “Then Rachel said, ‘God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son.’ Because of this she named him Dan.”
• Genesis 30:24 – “She named him Joseph, and said, ‘May the Lord add to me another son.'”
• Genesis 29:32 – “Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, ‘It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.'”
• Luke 1:59-60 – “On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah, but his mother spoke up and said, ‘No! He is to be called John.'”
• Genesis 35:18 – “As she breathed her last—for she was dying—she named her son Ben-Oni. But his father named him Benjamin.”
• 1 Chronicles 4:9 – “Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, ‘I gave birth to him in pain.'”
• Exodus 2:10 – “When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, ‘I drew him out of the water.'”
• Luke 1:63 – “He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote, ‘His name is John.'”
• Matthew 1:21 – “She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

Prayers and Hopes for Babies

• 1 Samuel 1:11 – “And she made a vow, saying, ‘Lord Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head.'”
• Luke 2:29-32 – “‘Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all nations: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.'”
• Genesis 17:18 – “And Abraham said to God, ‘If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!'”
• Numbers 6:24-26 – “‘The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.'”
• Luke 1:13-14 – “But the angel said to him: ‘Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth.'”
• Psalm 128:3-4 – “Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. Yes, this will be the blessing for the man who fears the Lord.”
• Psalm 20:4 – “May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.”
• Judges 13:8 – “Then Manoah prayed to the Lord: ‘Pardon your servant, Lord. I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.'”
• Jeremiah 29:11 – “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'”
• Psalm 37:26 – “They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be a blessing.”

Divine Promises and Covenants for Babies

• Genesis 9:9 – “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you.”
• Genesis 17:7 – “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.”
• Isaiah 65:23 – “They will not labor in vain, nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the Lord, they and their descendants with them.”
• Genesis 22:17 – “I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies.”
• Genesis 26:3 – “Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants, I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.”
• Genesis 28:14 – “Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.”
• Psalm 132:11-12 – “The Lord swore an oath to David, a sure oath he will not revoke: ‘One of your own descendants I will place on your throne. If your sons keep my covenant and the statutes I teach them, then their sons will sit on your throne for ever and ever.'”
• Exodus 20:6 – “But showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.”
• Psalm 102:28 – “The children of your servants will live in your presence; their descendants will be established before you.”
• Isaiah 44:3 – “For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.”

Joy and Celebration for Babies

• Psalm 113:9 – “He settles the childless woman in her home as a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord!”
• Isaiah 54:1 – “Sing, barren woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,’ says the Lord.”
• Psalm 30:5 – “For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.”
• Luke 1:14 – “He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice because of his birth.”
• Luke 1:58 – “Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.”
• Jeremiah 20:15 – “Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, who made him very glad, saying, ‘A child is born to you—a son!'”
• Job 3:3 – “‘May the day of my birth perish, and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!'”
• Luke 2:10 – “But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.'”
• Genesis 21:6 – “Sarah said, ‘God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.'”
• Psalm 126:5 – “Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy.”

Lessons from Children and Bible Verses about Babies

• Matthew 18:4 – “Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
• Matthew 21:16 – “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him. “Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read, ‘From the lips of children and infants you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”
• Mark 9:37 – “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.”
• Mark 10:15 – “Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
• Luke 9:48 – “Then he said to them, ‘Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For the one who is least among you all—he is the greatest.'”
• 1 Peter 2:2 – “Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.”
• Ephesians 5:1 – “Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children.”
• Matthew 11:25 – “At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.'”

Parental Love and Responsibility of Babies

• Proverbs 22:6 – “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”
• Ephesians 6:4 – “Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”
• Proverbs 29:17 – “Discipline your children, and they will give you peace; they will bring you the delights you desire.”
• Deuteronomy 6:6-7 – “These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”
• Psalm 103:13 – “As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.”
• Proverbs 17:6 – “Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.”
• 3 John 1:4 – “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.”
• Colossians 3:21 – “Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged.”

Healing and Miracles on Children and Babies

• 2 Kings 4:32-35 – “When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the Lord. Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy’s body grew warm. Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.”
• Mark 5:41-42 – “He took her by the hand and said to her, ‘Talitha koum!’ (which means ‘Little girl, I say to you, get up!’). Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished.”
• Matthew 17:18 – “Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.”
• John 4:49-50 – “The royal official said, ‘Sir, come down before my child dies.’ ‘Go,’ Jesus replied, ‘your son will live.’ The man took Jesus at his word and departed.”

Conclusion

Reflecting on these 120 Bible verses about babies fills our hearts with joy and gratitude. Each verse reminds us of the purity and hope that babies bring. May these Scriptures inspire you to cherish and nurture the little ones around you. Embrace the blessings they represent and the love of God they reflect!