Formed by the Same Hands
When I think of pro-life Bible verses, my mind usually goes to Jeremiah 1:5 or Psalm 139:13–16, because what could be more pro-life than being known, knit together in our mother’s womb, and created with purpose? But the other day, I came across a verse I haven’t seen used in a pro-life context before.
Job 31:15 says, “Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One form us both within our mothers?”
In this verse, Job is talking about how he treats other people and what shapes that. It is not based on their status, their choices, or their circumstances. It goes deeper than that: they share the same origin, for the same God formed them all.
Job understood that human value is not something we get to assign to one another. It’s something we receive from our Creator. Before we are ever known by the world, we are known by God. Before we are seen as wanted or unwanted, planned or unplanned, we are formed with intention.
And that truth reaches all the way into the womb.
The unborn child is not outside of this reality, but right at the center of it. Formed by the same hands, bearing the same image, and carrying the same dignity as you and I. There is no real distance between us and the lives we are called to protect.
After more than seven years since starting the pro-life organization Let Them Live, I’ve seen over 1,000 lives saved from abortion. It never becomes ordinary because it never stops being a miracle. The same God who formed us is still forming them.
Every life is known, deeply loved, and formed by the same hands.
By Emily Berning, Co-Founder & President | Let Them Live