Genesis 15:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Abram said, Behold, to me You have given no offspring: and, lo, one born in my house is my heir.

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  • Gen 14:14 : 14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he armed his trained men, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
  • Prov 29:21 : 21 He who delicately brings up his servant from childhood shall have him as a son in the end.
  • Prov 30:23 : 23 For an unloved woman when she is married, and a maidservant who is heir to her mistress.
  • Eccl 2:7 : 7 I acquired male and female servants, and had servants born in my house; also, I had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?
  • Heb 10:35-36 : 35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
  • Prov 13:12 : 12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:
  • Gen 13:16 : 16 And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also shall be numbered.

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  • Gen 15:1-2
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    86%

    1After these things, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am your shield, and your exceedingly great reward.

    2And Abram said, Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

  • Gen 15:4-5
    2 verses
    86%

    4And, behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, This shall not be your heir; but he that shall come forth out of your own body shall be your heir.

    5And he brought him outside, and said, Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if you are able to number them: and he said to him, So shall your offspring be.

  • Gen 16:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children; and she had a maidservant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    2And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, the LORD has restrained me from bearing children. I pray you, go in to my maid; it may be that I will obtain children by her. And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

  • Gen 13:15
    76%

    15For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your descendants forever.

  • Gen 24:36
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    36And Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old; and to him he has given all that he has.

  • Gen 17:18-19
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    75%

    18And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before you!

    19And God said, Sarah your wife shall indeed bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.

  • Gen 15:7-8
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    75%

    7And He said to him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.

    8And he said, Lord GOD, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?

  • Gen 21:12-13
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    74%

    12But God said to Abraham, Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the lad and because of your bondwoman. In all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac shall your seed be called.

    13And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is your seed.

  • Acts 7:5
    74%

    5And He gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on; yet he promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him, when as yet he had no child.

  • Heb 11:18
    73%

    18of whom it was said, 'In Isaac your seed shall be called,'

  • Gen 11:30
    73%

    30But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

  • Gen 17:8-9
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    8And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

    9And God said to Abraham, You shall keep my covenant therefore, you and your descendants after you in their generations.

  • Gen 12:7
    73%

    7And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your descendants will I give this land: and there he built an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.

  • Gen 15:13
    73%

    13And He said to Abram, Know certainly that your offspring shall be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

  • Gen 16:5-6
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    5And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be upon you; I have given my maid into your arms, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The LORD judge between me and you.

    6But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, your maid is in your hand; do to her as it pleases you. And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her presence.

  • Gen 16:15
    73%

    15And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called his son's name, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

  • Gen 35:12
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    12And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your descendants after you I will give the land.

  • Gen 21:10
    72%

    10Therefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son, for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

  • Gen 17:4-6
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    72%

    4As for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

    5Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made you.

    6And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.

  • Gen 13:17
    72%

    17Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.

  • Gen 17:21
    72%

    21But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year.

  • Gal 3:16
    72%

    16Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He does not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'And to your seed,' which is Christ.

  • Gen 22:16
    72%

    16And said, By myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:

  • Rom 9:7
    72%

    7Neither, because they are Abraham's descendants, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your descendants be called.

  • Gen 12:1
    72%

    1Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get yourself out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:

  • Gen 17:15-16
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    71%

    15And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

    16And I will bless her and give you a son also by her; yes, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall come from her.

  • Gen 22:18
    71%

    18And in your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice.

  • Gen 28:4
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    4And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you; that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.

  • Gen 15:18
    71%

    18On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

  • Gen 24:2
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    2And Abraham said to his oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please, put your hand under my thigh,

  • Gen 25:5
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    5And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

  • Gen 24:6-7
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    6And Abraham said to him, "Beware that you do not take my son back there.

    7The LORD God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my relatives, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

  • Gen 26:3
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    3Stay in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your descendants, I will give all these countries, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father;