Sarah saw them and said to Abraham, "Send this slave and her son away. The son of this woman must not get any part of your wealth, which my son Isaac should inherit."

But God said to Abraham, "Don't be worried about the boy and your slave Hagar. Do whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I have promised.

The LORD had appeared to Isaac and had said, "Do not go to Egypt; stay in this land, where I tell you to stay.

I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give them all this territory. All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants.

Jacob packed up all he had and went to Beersheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Then he blessed Joseph: "May God, whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac served, bless these boys! May God, who has led me to this very day, bless them!

who heard their groaning and remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." So Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

He has remembered to show mercy to Abraham and to all his descendants forever!"

He said he would show mercy to our ancestors and remember his sacred covenant.

they are descended from the famous Hebrew ancestors; and Christ, as a human being, belongs to their race. May God, who rules over all, be praised forever! Amen.

I am not saying that the promise of God has failed; for not all the people of Israel are the people of God.

For God's promise was made in these words: "At the right time I will come back, and Sarah will have a son."

If you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham and will receive what God has promised.

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the country that God had promised him. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who received the same promise from God.

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.

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.

Abraham named him Isaac,

I wish you would hide me in the world of the dead; let me be hidden until your anger is over, and then set a time to remember me.

Jesus said to them, "The times and occasions are set by my Father's own authority, and it is not for you to know when they will be.