Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Genesis 30:1

“And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.”

Genesis 30:1 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Genesis 30:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Genesis 30. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

2 And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Job 5:2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
  • Genesis 29:31And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
  • Genesis 37:11And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
  • 1 Corinthians 3:3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
  • Proverbs 14:30A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
  • 2 Corinthians 7:10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
  • James 4:5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
  • James 3:14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
  • 1 Samuel 1:4And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:
  • Ecclesiastes 4:4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
  • Galatians 5:21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom …
  • Job 3:11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
  • John 4:8(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

More to meet God in Genesis

Genesis 1:1Genesis 50:20Genesis 1:27Genesis 28:15Genesis 35:2Genesis 15:1Genesis 3:15Genesis 49:10Genesis 49:24Genesis 8:21Genesis 2:17Genesis 15:18Genesis 1:14Genesis 48:16

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.