Romans 4:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.

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  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything impossible for the LORD? I will return to you when the season comes round again and Sarah will have a son.”
  • Heb 11:19 : 19 and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.
  • 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 Because of this, in fact, I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, because I know the one in whom my faith is set and I am convinced that he is able to protect what has been entrusted to me until that day.
  • Ps 115:3 : 3 Our God is in heaven! He does whatever he pleases!
  • Luke 1:37 : 37 For nothing will be impossible with God.”
  • Rom 8:38 : 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers,
  • Rom 14:4 : 4 Who are you to pass judgment on another’s servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
  • 2 Cor 9:8 : 8 And God is able to make all grace overflow to you so that because you have enough of everything in every way at all times, you will overflow in every good work.
  • Luke 1:45 : 45 And blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled.”
  • Jer 32:17 : 17 ‘Oh, Sovereign LORD, you did indeed make heaven and earth by your mighty power and great strength. Nothing is too hard for you!
  • Jer 32:27 : 27 “I am the LORD, the God of all humankind. There is, indeed, nothing too difficult for me.
  • Matt 19:26 : 26 Jesus looked at them and replied,“This is impossible for mere humans, but for God all things are possible.”
  • Heb 11:13 : 13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.

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  • Rom 4:16-20
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    16For 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.

    18Against 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.”

    19Without 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.

    20He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.

  • Rom 4:22-24
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    78%

    22So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.

    23But the statement it was credited to him was not written only for Abraham’s sake,

    24but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.

  • Rom 4:2-6
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    2For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has something to boast about– but not before God.

    3For what does the scripture say?“Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

    4Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited due to grace but due to obligation.

    5But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness.

    6So even David himself speaks regarding the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:

  • Gen 15:6
    74%

    6Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD credited it as righteousness to him.

  • Gal 3:6
    73%

    6Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,

  • Heb 6:15
    73%

    15And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise.

  • Heb 11:11
    73%

    11By 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.

  • Rom 4:9-13
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    71%

    9Is this blessedness then for the circumcision or also for the uncircumcision? For we say,“faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”

    10How then was it credited to him? Was he circumcised at the time, or not? No, he was not circumcised but uncircumcised!

    11And 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.

    12And 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.

    13For 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.

  • Heb 11:17-19
    3 verses
    71%

    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

    18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”

    19and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.

  • Jas 2:21-23
    3 verses
    71%

    21Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

    22You see that his faith was working together with his works and his faith was perfected by works.

    23And the scripture was fulfilled that says,“Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.

  • Heb 10:23
    70%

    23And let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess, for the one who made the promise is trustworthy.

  • Heb 6:12-13
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    70%

    12so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

    13Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,

  • Heb 6:17-18
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    17In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

    18so 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.

  • Heb 10:36
    69%

    36For you need endurance in order to do God’s will and so receive what is promised.

  • Luke 1:45
    68%

    45And blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled.”

  • Heb 11:8
    68%

    8By 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.

  • Heb 11:39
    68%

    39And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.

  • Rom 15:13
    68%

    13Now 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.

  • Rom 3:3
    67%

    3What then? If some did not believe, does their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God?

  • Gal 3:9
    67%

    9So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.

  • Heb 11:6
    67%

    6Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

  • 2 Cor 8:11
    67%

    11to finish what you started, so that just as you wanted to do it eagerly, you can also complete it according to your means.

  • 1 Thess 5:24
    67%

    24He who calls you is trustworthy, and he will in fact do this.

  • Phil 1:6
    67%

    6For I am sure of this very thing, that the one who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.

  • 2 Cor 1:20
    67%

    20For every one of God’s promises are“Yes” in him; therefore also through him the“Amen” is spoken, to the glory we give to God.

  • Rom 9:9
    67%

    9For this is what the promise declared:“About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”

  • Luke 1:73
    67%

    73the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham. This oath grants

  • Ps 105:42
    67%

    42Yes, he remembered the sacred promise he made to Abraham his servant.

  • Gen 21:2
    67%

    2So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.