Romans 4:18

World English Bible (2000)

Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."

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  • Rom 5:5 : 5 and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
  • Rom 8:24 : 24 For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
  • Gen 15:5-6 : 5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be." 6 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.
  • Ruth 1:11-13 : 11 Naomi said, "Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? 12 Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, 'I have hope,' if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons; 13 would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me."
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
  • Mark 5:35-36 : 35 While he was still speaking, people came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?" 36 But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Don't be afraid, only believe."
  • Luke 1:18 : 18 Zacharias said to the angel, "How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."
  • Acts 27:25 : 25 Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.
  • Rom 4:17 : 17 As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
  • Rom 4:19 : 19 Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
  • Prov 13:12 : 12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 4:16-17
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    16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

    17As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

  • Rom 4:19-22
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    19Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

    20Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

    21and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

    22Therefore it also was "reckoned to him for righteousness."

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    17By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

    18even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • Heb 11:11-12
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    11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

    12Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

  • Rom 9:7-10
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    7Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

    8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

    9For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

    10Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

  • Rom 4:10-13
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    10How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

    11He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

    12He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

    13For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

  • Gen 15:3-6
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    3Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

    4Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."

    5Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."

    6He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

  • Gen 17:4
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    4"As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

  • Rom 8:24-25
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    24For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

    25But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.

  • Rom 4:3
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    3For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

  • Gal 3:6-9
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    6Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

    7Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

    8The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

    9So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  • Gen 17:19
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    19God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

  • Heb 11:8-9
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    8By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.

    9By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

  • Gen 22:17-18
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    17that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

    18In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

  • Gen 17:17
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    17Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?"

  • Rom 15:13
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    13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

  • Gen 21:2
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    2Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

  • Heb 6:15
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    15Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

  • Gal 4:27-28
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    27For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."

    28Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

  • Gen 18:18
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    18since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

  • Gal 3:16
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    16Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

  • Rom 4:1
    70%

    1What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

  • Heb 6:12
    69%

    12that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

  • Rom 5:4
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    4and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:

  • Heb 6:18
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    18that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

  • Rom 4:5
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    5But to him who doesn't work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

  • Gen 26:4
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    4I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

  • Gen 18:14
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    14Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."