Romans 4:18
Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement,“so will your descendants be.”
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- Rom 5:5 : 5 And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
- Rom 8:24 : 24 For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?
- Gen 15:5-6 : 5 The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.” 6 Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD credited it as righteousness to him.
- Ruth 1:11-13 : 11 But Naomi replied,“Go back home, my daughters! There is no reason for you to return to Judah with me! I am no longer capable of giving birth to sons who might become your husbands! 12 Go back home, my daughters! For I am too old to get married again. Even if I thought that there was hope that I could get married tonight and conceive sons, 13 surely you would not want to wait until they were old enough to marry! Surely you would not remain unmarried all that time! No, my daughters, you must not return with me. For my intense suffering is too much for you to bear. For the LORD is afflicting me!”
- Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said to me,“Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying,‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
- Mark 5:35-36 : 35 While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house saying,“Your daughter has died. Why trouble the teacher any longer?” 36 But Jesus, paying no attention to what was said, told the synagogue leader,“Do not be afraid; just believe.”
- Luke 1:18 : 18 Zechariah said to the angel,“How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.”
- Acts 27:25 : 25 Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be just as I have been told.
- Rom 4:17 : 17 (as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.
- Rom 4:19 : 19 Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead(because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
- Prov 13:12 : 12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is like a tree of life.
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- Rom 4:16-172 verses85%
16 For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants– not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
17 (as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.
- Rom 4:19-224 verses85%
19 Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead(because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
20 He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.
21 He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.
22 So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.
- Heb 11:17-182 verses79%
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.
18 God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”
- Heb 11:11-122 verses78%
11 By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.
12 So in fact children were fathered by one man– and this one as good as dead– like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.
- Rom 9:7-104 verses74%
7 nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather“through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”
8 This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.
9 For this is what the promise declared:“About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”
10 Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac–
- Rom 4:10-134 verses74%
10 How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!
11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.
12 And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.
13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
- Gen 15:3-64 verses73%
3 Abram added,“Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”
4 But look, the LORD’s message came to him:“This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
5 The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”
6 Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD credited it as righteousness to him.
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4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
- Rom 8:24-252 verses73%
24 For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?
25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.
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3 For what does the scripture say?“Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
- Gal 3:6-94 verses73%
6 Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,
7 so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying,“All the nations will be blessed in you.”
9 So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.
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19 God said,“No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.
- Heb 11:8-92 verses72%
8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.
9 By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.
- Gen 22:17-182 verses72%
17 I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.
18 Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”
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17 Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself,“Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”
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13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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2 So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.
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15 And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise.
- Gal 4:27-282 verses71%
27 For it is written:“Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.”
28 But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.
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18 After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.
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16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say,“and to the descendants,” referring to many, but“and to your descendant,” referring to one, who is Christ.
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1 The Illustration of Justification What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has discovered regarding this matter?
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12 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.
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4 and endurance, character, and character, hope.
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18 so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.
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5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.
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4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
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14 Is anything impossible for the LORD? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.”