Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, for the Lord and not for men,

Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

Did not He who made me in the womb also make them? Did not the same One form us in the womb?

For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’