SCRIPTURE SAYS

This is not a completed list of Scripture references but is merely offered as a guide.

Every Human being created by God:

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I dedicated you" (Jeremiah 1:5).

"Truly you have formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother¹s womb. I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made; wonderful are your works. My soul also you knew full well; nor as my frame unknown to you when I was made in secret, when I was fashioned in the depths of the earth" (Psalm 139:13-15).

"The Lord called me from birth, from my mother¹s womb he gave me my name" (Isaiah 49:1).

"In the beginning was the Word; and the Word was in God¹s presence, and the Word was God. Through him all things came into being, and apart from him nothing came to be." (John I.1-3).

 

God does not forget His young:
"Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you. See upon the palms of my hands I have written your name;" (Isaiah 49:15).

 

Choose Life!
"I have today set before you life and prosperity, death and doom. If you obey the commandments of the Lord, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, you will live and grow numerous, and the Lord your God, will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy. If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but are led astray and adore and serve other gods, I tell you now that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy. I call heaven and earth today to witness against you; I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life then, that you and your descendents may live, by loving the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 30:15-20).

Thou shall not kill:
"Thou shall not kill." (Exodus 20:13). ( Deuteronomy 5:6-21)

"This is my commandment; Love one another as I have loved you" (John 15:12).

Against child sacrifice:
"The people of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord. They have defiled the house which bears my name by setting up in it their abominable idols. In the Valley of Ben-hinnom they have built the high place of Topheth to immolate in fire their sons and their daughters, such a ting as I never commanded or had in mind. Therefore, beware!" (Jeremiah 7:27-31).

"There are six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to him, Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;" (Proverbs 6:16-19).

 

Rescue those in need:
"Defend the lowly and the fatherless; render justice to the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the lowly and the poor; from the hand of the wicked deliver them." (Psalm 82:2-4).

"If you remain indifferent in time of adversity, your strength will depart from you. Rescue those who are being dragged to death and from those tottering to execution withdraw not." (Proverbs 24:10-11).

"For the Lord is just; He loves just deeds; the upright shall see His face." (Psalm 11:7).

If we repent:
"If my people, upon whom my name has been pronounced, humble themselves and pray, and seek my presence and turn from their evil ways, I will hear them from heaven and pardon their sins and revive their land." (II Chronicles: 7:14).

"The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish." (Proverbs 14:11)

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. (Galatians 6:9).

"I assure you, as often as you neglected to do it to one of these least ones, you neglected to do it to me. These will go off to eternal punishment and the just to eternal life." (Matthew 25:31-46).

"Let the children come to me and do not hinder them. It is to just such as these that the kingdom of God belongs" (Mark 1): 13-16)

"When Elizabeth heard Mary¹s greeting, the baby leapt in her womb. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and cried out in a loud voice: "Blest are you among women and blest is the fruit of your womb. But who am I that the mother of my Lord should come to me? The moment your greeting sounded in my ears, the baby leapt in my womb for joy" (Luke 1:41-45).

"Jesus turned to them and said; "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me. Weep for yourselves and for your children. The days are coming when they will say, "Happy are the sterile, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed" (Luke:23:28).

"Rachel mourns her children, she refuses to be consoled because her children are no more" (Jeremiah 31:15).