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Want to know what the Bible says about Barrenness? Here are 182 Bible verses about Barrenness 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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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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Psalm 128:3 NIV
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
    within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
    around your table.
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Luke 1:36 NIV
Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.
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Genesis 30:1 NIV
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!”
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Job 39:6 NIV
I gave it the wasteland as its home,
    the salt flats as its habitat.
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Joel 2:20 NIV
“I will drive the northern horde far from you,
    pushing it into a parched and barren land;
its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea
    and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea.
And its stench will go up;
    its smell will rise.”
Surely he has done great things!
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Psalm 127:3-5 NIV
3 Children are a heritage from the Lord,
    offspring a reward from him.
4 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior
    are children born in one’s youth.
5 Blessed is the man
    whose quiver is full of them.
They will not be put to shame
    when they contend with their opponents in court.
432
Hebrews 11:11 NIV
And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise.
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Genesis 1:28 NIV
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.
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Proverbs 30:16 NIV
the grave, the barren womb,
    land, which is never satisfied with water,
    and fire, which never says, ‘Enough!’
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