Bible Verses About Surrogacy

“He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”

“Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”

“So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”

“Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert — the spring along the road to Shur.”

“Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”

“Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”

“So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”

“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man is to marry his brother’s widow and raise up offspring for him.”

“Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.”

“And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.”

“Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.”

“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.”

“Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Onan.”

“You who are trying to be justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.”

“Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’

“If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than to have known it and then to turn away from the holy commandment passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

“Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.”

“When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.”

“Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

“He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!”