Galatians 4:23

But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.

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

He said, “At this season, when the time comes around, you will embrace a son.” She said, “No, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.”

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

to whom it was said, “Your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac,”

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

They answered him, “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”

God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

They rose up in the morning early and worshiped Yahweh, then returned and came to their house to Ramah. Then Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

“Thus has the Lord done to me in the days in which he looked at me, to take away my reproach among men.”

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this.

Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all,

But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

Sarai said to Abram, “See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my servant. It may be that I will obtain children by her.” Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.

It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that Yahweh’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Know therefore that Yahweh your God himself is God, the faithful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with them who love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son.

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

The woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came around, as Elisha had said to her.

Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, “Long live the king!”

Jehoash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all his days in which Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,

Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”

“Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’

Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!

‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

I know that you are Abraham’s offspring, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

I just want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.