Romans 4:20

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Num 11:13-23 : 13 Where could I get meat to give to all this people? For they weep to me, saying, 'Give us meat, that we may eat.' 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness." 16 Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. 17 I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone. 18 "Say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and you will eat flesh; for you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, "Who will give us flesh to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt." Therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and you will eat. 19 You will not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, 20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it is loathsome to you; because that you have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"'" 21 Moses said, "The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, 'I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.' 22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?" 23 Yahweh said to Moses, "Has Yahweh's hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not."
  • Jer 32:16-27 : 16 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying, 17 Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you, 18 who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name; 19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings: 20 who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among [other] men; and made yourself a name, as in this day; 21 and brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror; 22 and gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey; 23 and they came in, and possessed it, but they didn't obey your voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come on them. 24 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it. 25 You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying, 27 Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?
  • Zech 8:9 : 9 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
  • 2 Cor 12:10 : 10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
  • 2 Tim 2:1 : 1 You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
  • Zech 8:13 : 13 It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your hands be strong."
  • 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."
  • Luke 1:45 : 45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!"
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
  • Dan 10:19 : 19 He said, "Greatly beloved man, don't be afraid: peace be to you, be strong, yes, be strong." When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me."
  • Dan 11:32 : 32 Such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert by flatteries; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and do [exploits].
  • Hag 2:4 : 4 Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,' says Yahweh. 'Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,' says Yahweh, 'and work, for I am with you,' says Yahweh of Armies.
  • 2 Kgs 7:2 : 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?" He said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."
  • 2 Kgs 7:19 : 19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, "Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?" and he said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it."
  • 2 Chr 20:15-20 : 15 and he said, "Listen, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat. Thus says Yahweh to you, 'Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. 16 Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz. You shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel. 17 You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.'" 18 Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshipping Yahweh. 19 The Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice. 20 They rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you shall be established! Believe his prophets, so you shall prosper."
  • Isa 7:9 : 9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'"
  • Isa 35:4 : 4 Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Don't be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution. He will come and save you.
  • Matt 9:8 : 8 But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
  • Eph 6:10 : 10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

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    16 For 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.

    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.

    18 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."

    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.

  • Rom 4:21-24
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    21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

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

    23 Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,

    24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

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    8 By 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.

    9 By 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.

    10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

    11 By 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.

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    2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

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

    4 Now to him who works, the reward is not counted as grace, but as something owed.

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

    6 Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,

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

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

    19 concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

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    9 Is this blessing then pronounced on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say that faith was accounted to Abraham for righteousness.

    10 How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

    11 He 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.

    12 He 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.

    13 For 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.

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    6 Even as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness."

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    23 let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

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

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    39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn't receive the promise,

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    15 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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    1 Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

    2 For by this, the elders obtained testimony.

    3 By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

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    21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

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    17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

    18 that 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.

  • Jas 2:21-23
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    21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

    22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;

    23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness;" and he was called the friend of God.

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    36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

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    20 For however many are the promises of God, in him is the "Yes." Therefore also through him is the "Amen," to the glory of God through us.

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    5 By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.

    6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

  • Rom 5:2
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    2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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    17 For in it is revealed God's righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, "But the righteous shall live by faith."

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    13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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