Romans 9:9
Good News Translation
For God's promise was made in these words: "At the right time I will come back, and Sarah will have a son."

New Revised Standard Version
For this is what the promise said, “About this time I will return and Sarah shall have a son.”

Contemporary English Version
Sarah, "At this time next year I will return, and you will already have a son."

New American Bible
For this is the wording of the promise, “About this time I shall return and Sarah will have a son.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I come. And Sara shall have a son.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I come. And Sara shall have a son.

At this time.

Genesis 17:21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

Genesis 18:10,14 And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent. . . .

Genesis 21:2 And she conceived and bore a son in her old age, at the time that God had foretold her.

Sarah.

Hebrews 11:11,12,17 By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age: because she believed that he was faithful who had promised, . . .

Context
God's Sovereign Choice
8That is to say, not they that are the children of the flesh are the children of God: but they that are the children of the promise are accounted for the seed. 9For this is the word of promise: According to this time will I come. And Sara shall have a son. 10And not only she. But when Rebecca also had conceived at once of Isaac our father.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:10
And he said to him: I will return and come to thee at this time, life accompanying, and Sara, thy wife, shall have a son. Which when Sara heard, she laughed behind the door of the tent.

Acts 5:38
And now, therefore, I say to you: Refrain from these men and let them alone. For if this council or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

Romans 9:8
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