Then the LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Can I really have a child when I am so old?'

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?"

Sarah said, "God has brought me joy and laughter. Everyone who hears about it will laugh with me."

Then she added, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

How we laughed, how we sang for joy! Then the other nations said about us, "The LORD did great things for them."

Zechariah said to the angel, "How shall I know if this is so? I am an old man, and my wife is old also."

But you have not believed my message, which will come true at the right time. Because you have not believed, you will be unable to speak; you will remain silent until the day my promise to you comes true."

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.

Though Abraham was practically dead, from this one man came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, as many as the numberless grains of sand on the seashore.

But it also applies to you: every husband must love his wife as himself, and every wife must respect her husband.

Sarah was like that; she obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are now her daughters if you do good and are not afraid of anything.