For this is what the promise declared:<n id="1" /> &#8220;<b><i>About a year from nowi>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>I will return and Sarah will have a soni>b>.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Against hope Abraham<n id="1" /> believed<n id="2" /> in hope with the result that he became <b><i>thei> <i>father of many nationsi>b><n id="3" /> according to the pronouncement,<n id="4" /> &#8220;<b><i>so will your descendants bei>b>.&#8221;<n id="5" />

<p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>And in the very placei>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>where it was said to themb>,i> &#8216;<i><b>You are not my peopleb>,i>&#8217;p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>there they will be calledi>b> &#8216;<i><b>sons of the living Godb>.i>&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

And again Isaiah says, &#8220;<i><b>The root of Jesse will comeb>, <b>and the one who rises to rule over the Gentilesb>, <b>in him will the Gentiles hopeb>i>.&#8221;<n id="1" />