Genesis 17:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

I will bless her and also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

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

Genesis 12:2

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

Genesis 15:4

But the word of the Lord came to him, “This man shall not be your heir; no one but your very own issue shall be your heir.”

Genesis 17:15

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

Genesis 17:19

God said, “No, but your wife Sarah shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

Genesis 17:6

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

Genesis 21:1

The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised.

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, become thousands of myriads; may your offspring gain possession of the gates of their foes.”

Genesis 25:23

And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples born of you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other; the elder shall 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 shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.

Genesis 36:31

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

Isaiah 49:23

Kings shall be your foster fathers and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.

Romans 9:9

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

Galatians 4:23

One, the child of the enslaved woman, was born according to the flesh; the other, the child of the free woman, was born through the promise.

1 Peter 3:6

Thus Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. You have become her daughters as long as you do what is good and never let fears alarm you.