Genesis 17:16

Modern English Version

I will bless her and also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 15:4

And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but a son that is from your own body will be your heir.”

Genesis 17:15

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

Genesis 17:19

Then God said, “No, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call his name Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.

Genesis 17:6

I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.

Genesis 21:1

The Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken.

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, become the mother of thousands of ten thousands; and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Genesis 25:23

Then the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from your body; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will come from you, and kings shall come forth from you.

Genesis 36:31

These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned any king over the Israelites.

Isaiah 49:23

kings shall be your foster fathers and their queens your nursing mothers; they shall bow down to you with their faces toward the ground and lick up the dust of your feet. And you shall know that I am the Lord, for those who wait for Me shall not be ashamed.

Romans 9:9

For this is the word of promise, “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”

Galatians 4:23

But he who was of the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but he of the free woman through the promise.

1 Peter 3:6

even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You are her children as long as you do right and are not afraid with any terror.