Genesis 21:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.

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  • Gen 18:10 : 10 And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door.
  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.
  • 1 Sam 2:21 : 21 And the Lord had mercy on Hannah and she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the young Samuel became older before the Lord.
  • Gal 4:23 : 23 Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.
  • Gen 17:19 : 19 And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.
  • Gen 17:21 : 21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.
  • Gal 4:28 : 28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.
  • Titus 1:2 : 2 In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;
  • Gen 17:16 : 16 And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.
  • Ps 12:6 : 6 The words of the Lord are true words: like silver tested by fire and burned clean seven times.
  • Ps 106:4 : 4 Keep me in mind, O Lord, when you are good to your people; O let your salvation come to me;
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
  • Luke 1:68 : 68 Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has come to his people and made them free,
  • Luke 19:44 : 44 And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.
  • Rom 4:17-20 : 17 (As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were. 18 Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be. 19 And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children: 20 Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,
  • Gen 50:24 : 24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
  • Exod 3:16 : 16 Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt;
  • Exod 4:31 : 31 And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.
  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
  • Ruth 1:6 : 6 So she and her daughters-in-law got ready to go back from the country of Moab, for news had come to her in the country of Moab that the Lord, in mercy for his people, had given them food.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 21:2-7
    6 verses
    86%

    2 And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.

    3 And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.

    4 And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.

    5 Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.

    6 And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

    7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.

  • Gen 18:9-15
    7 verses
    79%

    9 And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, She is in the tent.

    10 And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door.

    11 Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.

    12 And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

    13 And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child?

    14 Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

    15 Then Sarah said, I was not laughing; for she was full of fear. And he said, No, but you were laughing.

  • Gen 17:21
    77%

    21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

  • Gen 17:15-17
    3 verses
    76%

    15 And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

    16 And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

    17 Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?

  • Rom 9:9
    75%

    9 For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.

  • Gen 17:19
    75%

    19 And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

  • Heb 11:11
    74%

    11 And by faith Sarah herself had power to give birth, when she was very old, because she had faith in him who gave his word;

  • Gen 20:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

    18 For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 24:36
    72%

    36 And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he has given all he has.

  • 1 Sam 2:21
    72%

    21 And the Lord had mercy on Hannah and she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the young Samuel became older before the Lord.

  • Gen 16:2
    71%

    2 And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

  • Gen 24:1
    70%

    1 Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.

  • Gen 20:2
    70%

    2 And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.

  • Gen 18:1
    70%

    1 Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;

  • Gen 22:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15 And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,

    16 Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

  • Gen 22:1
    70%

    1 Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

  • Gen 21:12
    69%

    12 But God said, Let it not be a grief to you because of the boy and Hagar his mother; give ear to whatever Sarah says to you, because it is from Isaac that your seed will take its name.

  • Gen 21:22
    69%

    22 Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

  • Rom 4:19
    69%

    19 And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children: