Jeremiah 20:15

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Her neighbors and her relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

Moses said to Yahweh, “Behold, you tell me, ‘Bring up this people;’ and you haven’t let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.’

Yahweh said to Moses, “I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.

“Take a scroll of a book, and write in it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Their Redeemer is strong: Yahweh of Armies is his name. He will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

“Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness?

You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?