"Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will You now turn and destroy me? Please remember that You formed me like clay. Will You now return me to dust?... You clothed me with skin and flesh, and wove me together with bones and tendons.  You gave me life and faithful love, and Your care has guarded my life." (Job 10:8-12)

"Your hands shaped me and made me... Did You not clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life. (Job 10:8-12)

"Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant..." (Isaiah 49:1, 5).

This is what the Lord says - he who made you, who formed you in the womb. (Isaiah 44:2)

"The word of the LORD came to me, saying, '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'" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart. (Jeremiah 1:5)

"If men who are fighting 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, wound for wound, bruise for bruise." (Exodus 21:22,23)

"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." (Genesis 9:6)

"Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty." (Exodus 23:7)

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. (Deuteronomy 30:19-20)

 "I have brought forth a man with the help of the Lord" (Genesis 4:1)

"because they ripped open expectant mothers in Gilead" (Amos 1:13).

"They mutilated their sons and daughters by fire...till the Lord, in his great anger against Israel, put them away out of his sight" (2 Kings 17:17-18).

"Trample my courts no more! Bring no more worthless offerings...Your festivals I detest...When you spread out your hands, I close my eyes to you; though you pray the more, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood! Wash yourselves clean...learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan's plea, defend the widow" (Isaiah 1:13-17)

"Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One form us both within our mothers?" (Job 31:15)

"In His hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being" (Job 12:10)

"Do not shed innocent blood." (Jeremiah 7:6)

"Cursed is the man who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person" (Deuteronomy 27:25)

"You shall not murder." (Exodus 20:13)

"He didn't kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave." (Jeremiah 20:17)

"I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live" (Deuteronomy 30:19)


"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 fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13-16).

Your hands made me and formed me. (Psalm 119:73)

"Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him" (Psalm 127:3).

"Truly children are a gift from the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward" (Psalm 127:3).

From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother's womb you have been my God. (Psalm 22:10)

Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother's breast. (Psalm 22:19)

From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother's womb. I will ever praise you. (Psalm 71:6)

"In sin my mother conceived me," (Psalm 51:7)  The sinful nature was there at fertilization.

"They mingled with the nations and learned their works...They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, and they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, desecrating the land with bloodshed" Psalm 106:35, 37-38

"Justice shall flower in his days...for he shall rescue the poor man when he cries out and the afflicted when he has no one to help him" (Psalms 72:7,12)


"But when he [God] who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace" (Gal. 1: 15)

"If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer..." (I Peter 4:15)    

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
(2 Corinthians 5:10)

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
 (1 John 1:9)

"And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe [Brephos, which means infant--fetus also means infant] leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:" (Luke 1:41)
15 And they brought to him also infants [Brephos, which means infant--fetus also means infant] that he would touch them: but when [his] disciples saw [it], they rebuked them. (Luke 18:15)

"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit... As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy" (Luke 1:41, 44)

 "Be merciful as your heavenly Father is merciful" (Luke 6:36)

"Do to others as you would have them do to you" (Matthew 7:12)

"Love one another" (John 15:17)

"This is the message you have heard from the beginning: we should love one another, unlike Cain who belonged to the evil one and slaughtered his brother" (1 John 3:11-12)

"If someone...sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in Him?" (1 John 3:17)

"There shall be no more death" (Revelation 21:4)

Murder: Revelation 22:15, Matthew 19:18, Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17

Falsely making divisions between different people: Matthew 19:13-15, John 4:9, 27, Luke 17:11-19, Matthew 20:29-34, Matthew 21:41-46, Mark 2:16, Galatians 3:28

Other related verses: Romans 5:6, Ephesians 2:4-5, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Luke 10:25-37, Luke 16:19-31, Genesis 3:15, Isaiah 25:8, 1 Corinthians 15:54-57, John 10:10