The technology of in vitro fertilization (IVF) has led to left over human embryos for the sake of reproductive cost efficiency. This has created a tension between perceiving such embryos as human beings with imparted dignity as God-gifted creatures versus perceiving them as leftover biological residua that can be destroyed for research purposes. Viewed in the latter way, human embryos produced by IVF have become commodities to be sold or donated for purposes other than nurturing toward the development of living human offspring. In a biblical covenantal ethical framework, relationality is at the core of human being. Inherent (or intrinsic) human dignity is grounded on the relationship between God and humankind, a gift of image-bearing status given by God at creation. That relationship is the model for relationships between human beings as taught to believers within the new covenant in Christ. In this context, the human embryo, as an inherent organismal unity, has full moral worth and dignity as the most vulnerable of human beings in need of nurturing and protection. The unborn, including the embryo, are entitled to the same covenantal love through nurturing and protection as any other human being in a relationship involving one who is more vulnerable than another. While covenantal relating among adult human beings generally involves bilateral expressions of reciprocal support, normative covenantal relating involving the embryo requires no reciprocation by the embryo in light of its extreme vulnerability and the undifferentiated nature of human aspects of being. Consequently, this covenantal bioethic rejects commodification of all human life. Being founded on the divine-human covenant established at creation, this framework is applicable to all human beings, including those who fail to exercise the obligation of obedience inherent in that covenant.