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Want to know what the Bible says about Childlessness? Here are 11 Bible verses about Childlessness from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Isaiah 54:1 NIV
“Sing, barren woman,
    you who never bore a child;
burst into song, shout for joy,
    you who were never in labor;
because more are the children of the desolate woman
    than of her who has a husband,
says the Lord.
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1 Corinthians 7:8 NIV
Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.
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Luke 23:29 NIV
For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’
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Revelation 21:4 NIV
‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
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Genesis 16:2 NIV
so she said to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”
Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
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Genesis 29:32 NIV
Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, for she said, “It is because the Lord has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now.”
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Genesis 30:1-3 NIV
30 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!”
2 Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?”
3 Then she said, “Here is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”
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Genesis 30:13 NIV
Then Leah said, “How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
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1 Samuel 1:6 NIV
Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.
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Isaiah 4:1 NIV
In that day seven women
    will take hold of one man
and say, “We will eat our own food
    and provide our own clothes;
only let us be called by your name.
    Take away our disgrace!”
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Luke 1:25 NIV
“The Lord has done this for me,” she said. “In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace among the people.”
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