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:

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 shall your descendants also be numbered.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.

And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

He that carefully brings up his servant from a child shall have him become his son in the end.

For an unloved woman when she is married; and a maidservant that is heir to her mistress.

I got myself male and female servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle more than all that were in Jerusalem before me: