Scriptural References of Hope After Abortion


  • Jeremiah 31:15-17 "Thus says the Lord: In Ramah is heard the sound of moaning, of bitter weeping! Rachel mourns her children, she refuses to be consoled because her children are no more. Thus says the Lord, cease your cries of mourning. The sorrow you have shown shall have its reward, says the Lord, they shall return from the enemy's land. There is hope for your future says the Lord; they shall return from the enemy's land. There is hope for your future, says the Lord; your sons shall return to their own borders."
  • Matthew 2:18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were no more."
  • Deuteronomy 30:19 "I call heaven and earth today to witness against you; I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live."
  • Isaiah 49:14-16 "But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me; my Lord had forgotten me." Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you. See upon the palms of my hands I have written your name; your walls are ever before me."
  • Accept the Reality of the Loss For all about me are evils beyond reckoning, my sins overcome me that I cannot see, and my heart fails me. Psalm 40:13 (NAB)
  • Experience the Pain I am wearied with sighing: every night I flood my bed with weeping; I drench my couch with my tears. Psalm 6:7 (NAB)
  • Adjust to the Environment, Without the Deceased Look toward me, and have pity on me, for I am alone and afflicted. Relieve the troubles of my heart, bring me out of distress. Psalm 25.16-17 (NAB)
  • Reinvest the Energy from Grief...My God, I cried out to you and you healed me. At nightfall, weeping enters in, but with the dawn, rejoicing. Psalm 30:3,6 (NAB)
  • John 11:26 I am the resurrection and the life: whoever believes in me, though he should die, will come to life; and whoever is alive and believes in me will never die. (NAB)