Romans 4:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: `So shall thy seed be;'

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  • Rom 5:5 : 5 and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.
  • Rom 8:24 : 24 for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for `it'?
  • Gen 15:5-6 : 5 and He bringeth him out without, and saith, `Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, `Thus is thy seed.' 6 And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him -- righteousness.
  • Ruth 1:11-13 : 11 And Naomi saith, `Turn back, my daughters; why do ye go with me? are there yet to me sons in my bowels that they have been to you for husbands? 12 Turn back, my daughters, go, for I am too aged to be to a husband; though I had said, There is for me hope, also, I have been to-night to a husband, and also I have borne sons: 13 for them do ye wait till that they grow up? for them do ye shut yourselves up, not to be to a husband? nay, my daughters, for more bitter to me than to you, for the hand of Jehovah hath gone out against me.'
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; lo, they are saying: Dried up have our bones, And perished hath our hope, We have been cut off by ourselves.
  • Mark 5:35-36 : 35 As he is yet speaking, there come from the chief of the synagogue's `house, certain', saying -- `Thy daughter did die, why still dost thou harass the Teacher?' 36 And Jesus immediately, having heard the word that is spoken, saith to the chief of the synagogue, `Be not afraid, only believe.'
  • Luke 1:18 : 18 And Zacharias said unto the messenger, `Whereby shall I know this? for I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days?'
  • Acts 27:25 : 25 wherefore be of good cheer, men! for I believe God, that so it shall be, even as it hath been spoken to me,
  • Rom 4:17 : 17 who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- `A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.
  • Rom 4:19 : 19 and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb,
  • Prov 13:12 : 12 Hope prolonged is making the heart sick, And a tree of life `is' the coming desire.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 4:16-17
    2 verses
    85%

    16Because of this `it is' of faith, that `it may be' according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which `is' of the law only, but also to that which `is' of the faith of Abraham,

    17who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- `A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

  • Rom 4:19-22
    4 verses
    85%

    19and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb,

    20and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,

    21and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:

    22wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

  • Heb 11:17-18
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    79%

    17By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises,

    18of whom it was said -- `In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

  • Heb 11:11-12
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    78%

    11By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise;

    12wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that `is' by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.

  • Rom 9:7-10
    4 verses
    74%

    7nor because they are seed of Abraham `are' all children, but -- `in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

    8that is, the children of the flesh -- these `are' not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed;

    9for the word of promise `is' this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

    10And not only `so', but also Rebecca, having conceived by one -- Isaac our father --

  • Rom 4:10-13
    4 verses
    74%

    10how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;

    11and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

    12and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that `is' in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

    13For not through law `is' the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

  • Gen 15:3-6
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    73%

    3And Abram saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'

    4And lo, the word of Jehovah `is' unto him, saying, `This `one' doth not heir thee; but he who cometh out from thy bowels, he doth heir thee;'

    5and He bringeth him out without, and saith, `Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, `Thus is thy seed.'

    6And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him -- righteousness.

  • Gen 17:4
    73%

    4`I -- lo, My covenant `is' with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

  • Rom 8:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for `it'?

    25and if what we do not behold we hope for, through continuance we expect `it'.

  • Rom 4:3
    73%

    3for what doth the writing say? `And Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;'

  • Gal 3:6-9
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    6according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him -- to righteousness;

    7know ye, then, that those of faith -- these are sons of Abraham,

    8and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham --

    9`Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,

  • Gen 17:19
    72%

    19and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

  • Heb 11:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8By faith Abraham, being called, did obey, to go forth to the place that he was about to receive for an inheritance, and he went forth, not knowing whither he doth go;

    9by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,

  • Gen 22:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which `is' on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

    18and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth, because that thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

  • Gen 17:17
    72%

    17And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah -- daughter of ninety years -- bear?'

  • Rom 15:13
    72%

    13and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

  • Gen 21:2
    71%

    2and Sarah conceiveth, and beareth a son to Abraham, to his old age, at the appointed time that God hath spoken of with him;

  • Heb 6:15
    71%

    15and so, having patiently endured, he did obtain the promise;

  • Gal 4:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many `are' the children of the desolate -- more than of her having the husband.'

    28And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

  • Gen 18:18
    71%

    18and Abraham certainly becometh a nation great and mighty, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?

  • Gal 3:16
    70%

    16and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

  • Rom 4:1
    70%

    1What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

  • Heb 6:12
    69%

    12that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

  • Rom 5:4
    69%

    4and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

  • Heb 6:18
    69%

    18that through two immutable things, in which `it is' impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before `us',

  • Rom 4:5
    69%

    5and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned -- to righteousness:

  • Gen 26:4
    69%

    4and I have multiplied thy seed as stars of the heavens, and I have given to thy seed all these lands; and blessed themselves in thy seed have all nations of the earth;

  • Gen 18:14
    69%

    14And Jehovah saith unto Abraham, `Why `is' this? Sarah hath laughed, saying, Is it true really -- I bear -- and I am aged? Is any thing too wonderful for Jehovah? at the appointed time I return unto thee, about the time of life, and Sarah hath a son.'