Isaac Is Born^(A)

21 And the Lord ^(B)visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah ^(C)as He had spoken.

¹⁰ And He said, “I will certainly return to you ^(A)according to the time of life, and behold, ^(B)Sarah your wife shall have a son.”

(Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.)

¹⁹ Then God said: “No, ^(A)Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My ^(B)covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.

²³ But he who was of the bondwoman ^(A)was born according to the flesh, ^(B)and he of the freewoman through promise,

² in hope of eternal life which God, who ^(A)cannot lie, promised before time began,

¹⁷ (as it is written, ^(A)“I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, ^(B)who gives life to the dead and calls those ^(C)things which do not exist as though they did; ¹⁸ who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, ^(D)“So shall your descendants be.” ¹⁹ And not being weak in faith, ^(E)he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), ^(F)and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. ²⁰ He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God,

²¹ And the Lord ^(A)visited^[a] Hannah, so that she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile the child Samuel ^(B)grew before the Lord.

^14 (A)Is anything too hard for the Lord? ^(B)At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”