Bible Cross References
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Romans 9:7
Nor are all of Abraham's descendants the children of God. God said to Abraham, "It is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I promised you."
Romans 9:8
This means that the children born in the usual way are not the children of God; instead, the children born as a result of God's promise are regarded as the true descendants.
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Genesis 17:15-19
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God said to Abraham, "You must no longer call your wife Sarai; from now on her name is Sarah.
16
I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations, and there will be kings among her descendants."
17
Abraham bowed down with his face touching the ground, but he began to laugh when he thought, "Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah have a child at ninety?"
18
He asked God, "Why not let Ishmael be my heir?"
19
But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 18:10-14
10
One of them said, "Nine months from now I will come back, and your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was behind him, at the door of the tent, listening.
11
Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah had stopped having her monthly periods.
12
So Sarah laughed to herself and said, "Now that I am old and worn out, can I still enjoy sex? And besides, my husband is old too."
13
Then the LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Can I really have a child when I am so old?'
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Is anything too hard for the LORD? As I said, nine months from now I will return, and Sarah will have a son."
Genesis 21:1
The LORD blessed Sarah, as he had promised,
Genesis 21:2
and she became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham when he was old. The boy was born at the time God had said he would be born.
Romans 4:18-21
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Abraham believed and hoped, even when there was no reason for hoping, and so became "the father of many nations." Just as the scripture says, "Your descendants will be as many as the stars."
19
He was then almost one hundred years old; but his faith did not weaken when he thought of his body, which was already practically dead, or of the fact that Sarah could not have children.
20
His faith did not leave him, and he did not doubt God's promise; his faith filled him with power, and he gave praise to God.
21
He was absolutely sure that God would be able to do what he had promised.
Romans 10:8
What it says is this: "God's message is near you, on your lips and in your heart"---that is, the message of faith that we preach.
Hebrews 11:11
It was faith that made Abraham able to become a father, even though he was too old and Sarah herself could not have children. He trusted God to keep his promise.