13 You created every part of me;

you put me together in my mother’s womb.

14 I praise you because you are to be feared;

all you do is strange and wonderful.

I know it with all my heart.

15 When my bones were being formed,

carefully put together in my mother’s womb,

when I was growing there in secret,

you knew that I was there—

16 you saw me before I was born.

The days allotted to me

had all been recorded in your book,

before any of them ever began.

5 "I chose you before I gave you life, and before you were born I selected you to be a prophet to the nations."

9 It was you who brought me safely through birth,

and when I was a baby, you kept me safe.

5 God made everything, and you can no more understand what he does than you understand how new life begins in the womb of a pregnant woman.

9 Do not think that I will bring my people to the point of birth and not let them be born." The Lord has spoken.

3 Children are a gift from the Lord;

they are a real blessing.

17 Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights, who does not change or cause darkness by turning.

27 I asked him for this child, and he gave me what I asked for.

21 When a woman is about to give birth, she is sad because her hour of suffering has come; but when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering, because she is happy that a baby has been born into the world.

14 Jesus said, "Let the children come to me and do not stop them, because the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

16 Then he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on each of them, and blessed them.