Verse 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.”

Referenced Verses

  • 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.