Bible Cross References
God
Genesis 17:17
Abraham bowed down with his face touching the ground, but he began to laugh when he thought, "Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah have a child at ninety?"
Genesis 18:12-15
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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."
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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."
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Because Sarah was afraid, she denied it. "I didn't laugh," she said. "Yes, you did," he replied. "You laughed."
1 Samuel 1:26-28
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Hannah said to him, "Excuse me, sir. Do you remember me? I am the woman you saw standing here, praying to the LORD.
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I asked him for this child, and he gave me what I asked for.
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So I am dedicating him to the LORD. As long as he lives, he will belong to the LORD." Then they worshiped the LORD there.
1 Samuel 2:1-10
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Hannah prayed: "The LORD has filled my heart with joy; how happy I am because of what he has done! I laugh at my enemies; how joyful I am because God has helped me!
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"No one is holy like the LORD; there is none like him, no protector like our God.
3
Stop your loud boasting; silence your proud words. For the LORD is a God who knows, and he judges all that people do.
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The bows of strong soldiers are broken, but the weak grow strong.
5
The people who once were well fed now hire themselves out to get food, but the hungry are hungry no more. The childless wife has borne seven children, but the mother of many is left with none.
6
The LORD kills and restores to life; he sends people to the world of the dead and brings them back again.
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He makes some people poor and others rich; he humbles some and makes others great.
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He lifts the poor from the dust and raises the needy from their misery. He makes them companions of princes and puts them in places of honor. The foundations of the earth belong to the LORD; on them he has built the world.
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"He protects the lives of his faithful people, but the wicked disappear in darkness; a man does not triumph by his own strength.
10
The LORD's enemies will be destroyed; he will thunder against them from heaven. The LORD will judge the whole world; he will give power to his king, he will make his chosen king victorious."
Psalm 113:9
He honors the childless wife in her home; he makes her happy by giving her children. Praise the LORD!
Psalm 126:2
How we laughed, how we sang for joy! Then the other nations said about us, "The LORD did great things for them."
Isaiah 49:15
So the LORD answers, "Can a woman forget her own baby and not love the child she bore? Even if a mother should forget her child, I will never forget you.
Isaiah 49:21
Then you will say to yourself, 'Who bore all these children for me? I lost my children and could have no more. I was exiled and driven away--- who brought these children up? I was left all alone--- where did these children come from?' "
Isaiah 54:1
Jerusalem, you have been like a childless woman, but now you can sing and shout for joy. Now you will have more children than a woman whose husband never left her.
Luke 1:46-55
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Mary said, "My heart praises the Lord;
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my soul is glad because of God my Savior,
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for he has remembered me, his lowly servant! From now on all people will call me happy,
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because of the great things the Mighty God has done for me. His name is holy;
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from one generation to another he shows mercy to those who honor him.
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He has stretched out his mighty arm and scattered the proud with all their plans.
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He has brought down mighty kings from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly.
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He has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away with empty hands.
54
He has kept the promise he made to our ancestors, and has come to the help of his servant Israel.
55
He has remembered to show mercy to Abraham and to all his descendants forever!"
John 16:21
When a woman is about to give birth, she is sad because her hour of suffering has come; but when the baby is born, she forgets her suffering, because she is happy that a baby has been born into the world.
John 16:22
That is how it is with you: now you are sad, but I will see you again, and your hearts will be filled with gladness, the kind of gladness that no one can take away from you.
Galatians 4:27
For the scripture says, "Be happy, you childless woman! Shout and cry with joy, you who never felt the pains of childbirth! For the woman who was deserted will have more children than the woman whose husband never left her."
Galatians 4:28
Now, you, my friends, are God's children as a result of his promise, just as Isaac was.
Hebrews 11:11
It was faith that made Abraham able to become a father, even though he was too old and Sarah herself could not have children. He trusted God to keep his promise.
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Luke 1:14
How glad and happy you will be, and how happy many others will be when he is born!
Luke 1:58
Her neighbors and relatives heard how wonderfully good the Lord had been to her, and they all rejoiced with her.
Romans 12:15
Be happy with those who are happy, weep with those who weep.