Genesis 21:10

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Genesis 21:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible

8 So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

9 But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

10 and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”

11 Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.

12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.

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Genesis 25:6

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

Genesis 25:19

This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,

Genesis 17:19

But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

Genesis 17:21

But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

Genesis 20:11

Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’

Genesis 22:10

Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.

Genesis 36:6

Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.

Genesis 36:7

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.

Matthew 8:11

I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 8:12

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Matthew 22:13

Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

John 8:35

A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son belongs to it forever.

Galatians 4:22

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

Galatians 4:23

His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

Galatians 4:24

These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.

Galatians 4:25

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

Galatians 4:26

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Galatians 4:27

For 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.”

Galatians 4:28

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Galatians 4:29

At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

Galatians 4:30

But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

Galatians 4:31

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.

Galatians 3:18

For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on a promise; but God freely granted it to Abraham through a promise.

Galatians 4:7

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.

1 Peter 1:4

and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,