Luke 1:36

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

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

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

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

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.

However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

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.

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.

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.”

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

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

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

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

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

At that time Moses was born, and was exceedingly handsome. He was nourished three months in his father’s house.

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

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

Sarai was barren. She had no child.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

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

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

Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

The time came near that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me. Please don’t bury me in Egypt,

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,

So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.

Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.

He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb.

Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

David said, “As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’ ”

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.”

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

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living.

He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’ ”

“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Yahweh, the God of David your father, says, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t give birth; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who didn’t travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

“You shall tell him, Yahweh says: ‘Behold, that which I have built, I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.

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

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

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, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”

They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.

“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

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

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.

For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.