Bible Verses About Overpopulation And Procreation

And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Core Bible command behind the early Christian teaching.

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

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And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

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Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

Post-flood command to multiply upon the earth

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

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And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

Promise of fruitfulness and descendants

For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.

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Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

Shows marriage and family life as commanded in exile.

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

Shows God's aim as godly offspring.

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Children are called a gift from the Lord.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Direct instruction to marry and bear children.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Simple Bible support for marriage over burning with desire.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

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To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

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And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

God promises multiplication and increase

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

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And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

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Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

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Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

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Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

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But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

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