getting pregnant
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9He causes a barren woman to live in a house, as the joyful mother of sons.
3Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb.
3Your wife is like an abundant vine on the sides of your house. Your sons are like young olive trees surrounding your table. 4Behold, so will the man be blessed who fears the Lord.
12And when your days will have been fulfilled, and you will sleep with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who will go forth from your loins, and I will make firm his kingdom.
15Yet she will be saved by bearing children, if she has continued in faith and love, and in sanctification accompanied by self-restraint.
25And you shall serve the Lord your God, so that I may bless your bread and your waters, and so that I may take away sickness from your midst. 26There will not be fruitless or barren ones in your land. I will fill up the number of your days.
21And Isaac beseeched the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And he heard him, and he gave conception to Rebekah.
1Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2But, because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should also act similarly toward her husband. 4It is not the wife, but the husband, who has power over her body. But, similarly also, it is not the husband, but the wife, who has power over his body. 5So, do not fail in your obligations to one another, except perhaps by consent, for a limited time, so that you may empty yourselves for prayer. And then, return together again, lest Satan tempt you by means of your abstinence. 6But I am saying this, neither as an indulgence, nor as a commandment.
14and if my people, over whom my name has been invoked, being converted, will have petitioned me and sought my face, and will have done penance for their wicked ways, then I will heed them from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and I will heal their land.
4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
1James, servant of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes of the dispersion, greetings. 2My brothers, when you have fallen into various trials, consider everything a joy, 3knowing that the proving of your faith exercises patience, 4and patience brings a work to perfection, so that you may be perfect and whole, deficient in nothing. 5But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him. 6But he should ask with faith, doubting nothing. For he who doubts is like a wave on the ocean, which is moved about by the wind and carried away;
18Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.
9If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
29What my Father gave to me is greater than all, and no one is able to seize from the hand of my Father.