He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;

Let us hold fast the profession of {our} faith without wavering; (for he {is} faithful that promised;)

Now Abraham and Sarah {were} old {and} well stricken in age; {and} it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall {a child} be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

Let us hold fast the profession of {our} faith without wavering; (for he {is} faithful that promised;)

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God {is} faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear {it}. {common...: or, moderate}

Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he {is} God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

Sing, O barren, thou {that} didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou {that} didst not travail with child: for more {are} the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.

God {is} faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us {our} sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on {me}, to take away my reproach among men.

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, {so that} all that hear will laugh with me.

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

But he {who was} of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman {was} by promise.

For this {is} the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.

And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were {now} well stricken in years.

Now Abraham and Sarah {were} old {and} well stricken in age; {and} it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

Accounting that God {was} able to raise {him} up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.

Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;