Hebrews 11:11

Again, it was faith that enabled Sarah to conceive (though she was past the age for childbearing), because she felt sure that he who had given her the promise would not fail her.

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In The King James Version

Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.

In Context

10For he was looking for the city with the sure foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

12And so from one man – and that when his powers were dead – there sprang a people as numerous ‘as the stars in the heavens or the countless grains of sand on the shore.’

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Cross References

Genesis 18:11Now Sarah and Abraham were advanced in years;

Romans 4:20He was not led by want of faith to doubt God’s promise.

1 Peter 3:5It was by this that the holy women of old, who rested their hopes on God, adorned themselves; submitting to their husbands,

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:5-32

Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that… Read the whole commentary →

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