For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb:

samaanam u tyam puruhuutam ukthya\M rathaM tricakraM savanaa ganigmatam