Genesis 17:16

World English Bible (2000)

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

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  • Gen 35:11 : 11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
  • Gen 17:6 : 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
  • Gen 18:10-14 : 10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him. 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. 12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?" 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?' 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
  • Gen 24:60 : 60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
  • Gen 1:28 : 28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
  • Isa 49:23 : 23 Kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers: they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed."
  • Rom 9:9 : 9 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."
  • Gal 4:26-31 : 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband." 28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 30 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman." 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.
  • 1 Pet 3:6 : 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 17:4-8
    5 verses
    85%

    4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

    5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

    6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

    7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

    8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."

  • Gen 17:19-21
    3 verses
    82%

    19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

    20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

    21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

  • Gen 17:15
    81%

    15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

  • Gen 17:17
    78%

    17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

  • Gen 12:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

    3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."

  • Heb 6:14
    77%

    14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."

  • Gen 26:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

    4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

  • Gen 18:18
    76%

    18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

  • Gen 22:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

    18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

  • Gen 24:36
    76%

    36 Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

  • Gen 17:2
    75%

    2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

  • Gen 21:2
    75%

    2 Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  • Rom 9:9
    75%

    9 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

  • Gen 35:11
    75%

    11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

  • Gen 21:13
    74%

    13 I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."

  • Gen 18:10-14
    5 verses
    74%

    10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

    11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

    12 Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

    13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

    14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

  • Gen 28:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

    4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."

  • Gen 16:10
    73%

    10 The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."

  • Gen 21:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."

    7 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

  • Gen 16:2
    73%

    2 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

  • Isa 51:2
    72%

    2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

  • Gen 28:14
    72%

    14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

  • Gen 20:17
    71%

    17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

  • Gen 24:60
    71%

    60 They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."