Why should we value life?
Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
Genesis 1:27 "And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created Him; male and female He created them."
Acts 17:26 "He created every race of men of one stock, to inhabit the whole earth's surface. He fixed the epochs of their history and the limits of their territory."
Psalm 100:3 "Know that the Lord Himself is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture."
Isaiah 44:24 "Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, 'I, the Lord, am the maker of all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself, and spreading out the earth all alone. . .'"
Colossians 1:16 "For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities all things have been created by Him and for Him."
Isaiah 64:8 "Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand."
Who is the creator of the preborn?
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?"
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, clothe 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."
Psalm 139:13-16 "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 full 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."
How is God concerned with the preborn?
Isaiah 49:1 "Listen to me, you islands; hear this, you distant nations: Before I was born the Lord called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name."
Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."
Galatians 1:15 "But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace."
Isaiah 49:16 "Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me."
Ephesians 1:3-4 "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight."
Who is responsible for life and death?
1 Samuel 2:6 "The Lord brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up."
Exodus 20:1, 13 "Then God spoke all these words, saying, . . . "You shall not murder."
Matthew 5:19 "Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of Heaven."
Jeremiah 7:6 "...shed not innocent blood..."
Deuteronomy 30:19 "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live..."
(Jeremiah 22:3 and 22:17, Exodus 23:7, Matthew 5:21, Matthew 19:18, Romans 1:29, James 2:11, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15)
Is man permitted to take life before birth?
Exodus 21:22-25 "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, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."
Amos 1:13 "Thus says the Lord: 'For three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they ripped open the woman with child in Gilead..."
Matthew 18:14 "Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish."
Matthew 18:10 "Never despise one of these little ones; I tell you, they have their guardian angels in heaven, who look continually on the face of my Heavenly Father."
Should a child conceived as a result of rape or incest be aborted?
Exodus 4:11 "So the Lord said to him, 'Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord?"
Isaiah 45:9-11 "Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'? Woe to him who says to his father, 'What have you begotten?' or to his mother, 'What have you brought to birth?' This is what the Lord says-- the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Concerning things to come, do you question me about my children, or give me orders about the work of my hands?"
Romans 9:20-21 "On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, 'Why did you make me like this?,' will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use, and another for common use?"
2 Corinthians 12:7-9 "To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me."
1 Corinthians 1:27 "Yet, to shame the wise, God has chosen what the world counts folly, and to shame what is strong, God has chosen what the world counts weakness."
Should a woman have control over the life in her own body?
Psalm 127:3 "Behold, children are a gift of the Lord; the fruit of the womb is a reward."
Ezekiel 18:4 "Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine. The soul who sins will die."
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body."
1 Peter 2:16 "Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God."
Is abortion the solution to crisis pregnancies?
Isaiah 49:15 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, and have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you."
Isaiah 53:6 "All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him."
Isaiah 5:21 "Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight."
Proverb 14:12 "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death."
Does God forgive those who have had abortions?
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Ephesians 1:7 "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace..."
Isaiah 43:25 "I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins."
What does the Bible say to those who perform abortions?
Deuteronomy 27:25 "Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen."
Jeremiah 22:17 "But your eyes and your heart are intent only upon your own dishonest gain, and on shedding innocent blood and on practicing oppression and extortion."
Proverb 8:36 "But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death."
Luke 17:2 "It were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones."
Proverb 28:13 "He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy."
Hebrews 4:13 "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account."
1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
