Genesis 18:12

World English Bible (2000)

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

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  • Gen 17:17 : 17 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?"
  • 1 Pet 3:6 : 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.
  • Gen 18:13 : 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
  • Gen 21:6-7 : 6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me." 7 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
  • Ps 126:2 : 2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for them."
  • Luke 1:18-20 : 18 Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years." 19 The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you, and to bring you this good news. 20 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."
  • Luke 1:34-35 : 34 Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?" 35 The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God.
  • Eph 5:33 : 33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
  • Heb 11:11-12 : 11 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. 12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

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  • Gen 18:13-15
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    13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

    14 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."

    15 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

  • Gen 18:9-11
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    9 They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

    10 He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

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

  • Gen 17:15-19
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    15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

    16 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."

    17 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?"

    18 Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

    19 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 seed after him.

  • Gen 21:5-7
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    5 Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

    6 Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."

    7 She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

  • Gen 21:1-2
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    1 Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

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

  • Gen 24:36
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    36 Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

  • Gen 16:2
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    2 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

  • Gen 17:21
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    21 But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

  • Heb 11:11
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    11 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.

  • Rom 9:9
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    9 For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

  • Rom 4:19
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    19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

  • Gen 20:2
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    2 Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

  • Gen 20:18
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    18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 20:11-12
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    11 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

    12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

  • 2 Kgs 4:16
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    16 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 handmaid."

  • Gen 23:1
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    1 Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.

  • Gen 16:5-6
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    5 Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."

    6 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

  • Gen 11:30
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    30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.

  • Gen 24:1
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    1 Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

  • Luke 1:18
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    18 Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."

  • Gen 12:11
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    11 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

  • Gen 12:18-19
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    18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

    19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

  • Gen 21:12
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    12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

  • Gen 18:6
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    6 Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes."