Bible Cross References
Sarah
Genesis 17:21
But I will keep my covenant with your son Isaac, who will be born to Sarah about this time next year."
Genesis 18:10-14
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One of them said, "Nine months from now I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was behind him, at the door of the tent, listening.
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Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah had stopped having her monthly periods.
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So Sarah laughed to herself and said, "Now that I am old and worn out, can I still enjoy sex? And besides, my husband is old too."
13
Then the LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Can I really have a child when I am so old?'
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Is anything too hard for the LORD? As I said, nine months from now I will return, and Sarah will have a son."
Genesis 21:2
and she became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham when he was old. The boy was born at the time God had said he would be born.
Genesis 21:3
Abraham named him Isaac,
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has brought me joy and laughter. Everyone who hears about it will laugh with me."
2 Kings 4:16
and Elisha said to her, "By this time next year you will be holding a son in your arms." "Oh!" she exclaimed. "Please, sir, don't lie to me. You are a man of God!"
2 Kings 4:17
But, as Elisha had said, at about that time the following year she gave birth to a son.
Luke 1:13-20
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But the angel said to him, "Don't be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son. You are to name him John.
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How glad and happy you will be, and how happy many others will be when he is born!
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John will be great in the Lord's sight. He must not drink any wine or strong drink. From his very birth he will be filled with the Holy Spirit,
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and he will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God.
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He will go ahead of the Lord, strong and mighty like the prophet Elijah. He will bring fathers and children together again; he will turn disobedient people back to the way of thinking of the righteous; he will get the Lord's people ready for him."
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Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know if this is so? I am an old man, and my wife is old also."
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"I am Gabriel," the angel answered. "I stand in the presence of God, who sent me to speak to you and tell you this good news.
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But you have not believed my message, which will come true at the right time. Because you have not believed, you will be unable to speak; you will remain silent until the day my promise to you comes true."
Romans 9:6-9
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I am not saying that the promise of God has failed; for not all the people of Israel are the people of God.
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Nor are all of Abraham's descendants the children of God. God said to Abraham, "It is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I promised you."
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This means that the children born in the usual way are not the children of God; instead, the children born as a result of God's promise are regarded as the true descendants.
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For God's promise was made in these words: "At the right time I will come back, and Sarah will have a son."
Galatians 4:28-31
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Now, you, my friends, are God's children as a result of his promise, just as Isaac was.
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At that time the son who was born in the usual way persecuted the one who was born because of God's Spirit; and it is the same now.
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But what does the scripture say? It says, "Send the slave woman and her son away; for the son of the slave woman will not have a part of the father's property along with the son of the free woman."
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So then, my friends, we are not the children of a slave woman but of a free woman.