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Genesis 18:12

WEB

12Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

KJV

12Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?

BSB

12So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

FBV

12Sarah was laughing inside, saying to herself, “Now that I'm old and worn out, how would I experience pleasure? My husband is old too!”

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Extra References

1 Peter 3:6

6So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are if you do well and are not put in fear by any terror.


Genesis 17:17

17Then 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?”


Luke 1:18-20

18Zacharias 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.”

19The 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. 20Behold,[+] 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.”


Genesis 18:13

13The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’


Luke 1:34-35

34Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”

35The 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.


Genesis 21:6-7

6Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.” 7She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”


Psalms 126:2

2Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, The LORD has done great things for them.”


Ephesians 5:33

33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.


Hebrews 11:11-12

11By 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. 12Therefore 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.