Genesis 17:19
Good News Translation
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.

New Revised Standard Version
God said, “No, but your wife Sarah shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

Contemporary English Version
But God answered: No! You and Sarah will have a son. His name will be Isaac, and I will make an everlasting promise to him and his descendants.

New American Bible
God replied: Even so, your wife Sarah is to bear you a son, and you shall call him Isaac. It is with him that I will maintain my covenant as an everlasting covenant and with his descendants after him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

Sarah.

Genesis 17:21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

Genesis 18:10-14 And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent. . . .

Genesis 21:2,3,6 And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her. . . .

2 Kings 4:16,17 He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life be in company, thou shalt have a son in thy womb. But she answered: Do not, I beseech thee, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie to thy handmaid. . . .

Luke 1:13-20 But the angel said to him: Fear not, Zachary, for thy prayer is heard: and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son. And thou shalt call his name John. . . .

Romans 9:6-9 Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel. . . .

Galatians 4:28-31 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. . . .

Isaac.

Genesis 17:17 Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?

. By this Abraham did not express his unbelief or weakness of faith, but his joy at the prospect of the fulfilment of so glorious a promise; and to this our Lord evidently alludes, Joh.

8:56

Context
The Covenant of Circumcision
18And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee. 19And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.20And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.…
Cross References
Luke 1:55
As he spoke to our fathers: to Abraham and to his seed for ever.

Hebrews 11:11
By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age: because she believed that he was faithful who had promised,

Genesis 9:16
And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.

Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

Genesis 17:18
And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.

Genesis 17:21
But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

Genesis 18:10
And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.

Genesis 21:2
And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.

Genesis 21:3
And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sara bore him, Isaac.

Genesis 26:2
And the Lord appeared to him, and said: Go not down into Egypt, but stay in the land that I shall tell thee.

Genesis 17:18
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