Originally Posted on Salvation Soldier Blog
Did you ever wonder if the Scripture spoke clearly about the topic of abortion? Of course there are numerous Christian groups who take a pro-life stance, but when does life really begin? Is it okay to kill a baby in the womb? What does God have to say about abortion? Whether you want to know if abortion is right from the Word of God, or you need scripture to defend your stance, today’s blog is just that. Read these words of truth and let God’s Holy Spirit teach you where to stand on the topic of abortion.
I encourage you to open your Bibles to put these scriptures into context, or use a Bible search website such as BibleGateway.com, or BlueLetterBible.org.
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.”
Galatians 1:15 – “…God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb…”
Psalm 139:13 – “For you created me in my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
Psalm 139:16 – “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
Job 10:8-12 – “Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese, cloth me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit.”
Isaiah 44:2 – “This is what the LORD says- he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you…”
Job 31:15 – “Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?”
Genesis 1:27 – “So God created mankind in his own image; in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”
Psalm 127:3 – “Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from him.”
Ezekiel 16:20-21 – “And you took your sons and daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough? You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.”
Job 12:10 – “In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.”
Jeremiah 7:5-7 – “If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly, if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not follow other gods to your own harm, then I will let you live in this place, in the land I gave your ancestors for ever and ever.”
Deuteronomy 27:25 – “Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person…”
Exodus 20:13 – “You shall not murder.”
Jeremiah 20:17 – “He did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave…”
Amos 1:13 – “This is what the LORD says: ‘For three sins of Ammon, even for four, I will not relent. Because he ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead to extend his borders.’”
Exodus 21:22-25 – “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, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.”
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 – “This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
Source: The list for these scriptures came from the 180 Course Study Guide by Ray Comfort. All Scriptures are in the New International Version, 1984.