Genesis 17:16

New English Translation

I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

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

Genesis 12:2

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

Genesis 15:4

But look, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

Genesis 17:15

Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.

Genesis 17:19

God said, “No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.

Genesis 17:6

I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

Genesis 21:1

The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

Genesis 24:60

They blessed Rebekah with these words: “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”

Genesis 25:23

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

Genesis 35:11

Then God said to him, “I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation – even a company of nations – will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!

Genesis 36:31

These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites:

Isaiah 49:23

Kings will be your children’s guardians; their princesses will nurse your children. With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you and they will lick the dirt on your feet. Then you will recognize that I am the Lord; those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.

Romans 9:9

For this is what the promise declared: “About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

Galatians 4:23

But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise.

1 Peter 3:6

like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.