Genesis 21:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.””
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“Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh; every one that heareth will laugh with me.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and Sarah saith, `God hath made laughter for me; every one who is hearing laugheth for me.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 21:6 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 17:17Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
- Genesis 18:12So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
- 1 Samuel 1:26“Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
- Psalms 113:9He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
- Psalms 126:2Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
- Isaiah 49:15“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
- Isaiah 49:21Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”
- Isaiah 54:1“Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
- Luke 1:14He will be a joy and delight to you, and many will rejoice at his birth,
- Luke 1:46Then Mary said: “My soul magnifies the Lord,
- Luke 1:58Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.
- John 16:21A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
- Romans 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
- Galatians 4:27For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”
- Hebrews 11:11By faith Sarah, even though she was barren and beyond the proper age, was enabled to conceive a child, because she considered Him faithful who had promised.
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