Exodus 18:18
18:18 You will surely wear out,
both you and these people who are with you, for this is too
heavy a burden
for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.
Genesis 21:10-12
21:10 So she said to Abraham, “Banish
that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”
21:11 Sarah’s demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son.
21:12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.
Genesis 21:1
The Birth of Isaac
21:1 The Lord visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.
Genesis 8:6-7
8:6 At the end of forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the ark
8:7 and sent out a raven; it kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up on the earth.
Genesis 8:22
8:22 “While the earth continues to exist,
planting time and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
and day and night will not cease.”
Acts 15:2
15:2 When Paul and Barnabas had a major argument and debate
with them, the church
appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to meet with
the apostles and elders in Jerusalem
about this point of disagreement.
Galatians 2:2
2:2 I went there
because of
a revelation and presented
to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so
only in a private meeting with the influential people,
to make sure that I was not running – or had not run
– in vain.