Romans 4:18
Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
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Romans 4:18
Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
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Romans 4:17
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.
Romans 4:18
Against hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
Romans 4:19
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.
Romans 4:20
Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
Romans 4:21
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
Romans 4:22
Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
Romans 4:23
Now it was not written that it was accounted to him for his sake alone,
Romans 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
Romans 4:25
who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
Hebrews 11:12
Therefore 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.
Hebrews 11:19
concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
1 Samuel 27:1
David said in his heart, “I will now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So I will escape out of his hand.”
Matthew 17:20
He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
Romans 1:5
through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;
Romans 4:1
What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
Galatians 4:23
However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.
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Genesis 15:5
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 your offspring will be.”
Genesis 22:17
that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Genesis 17:5
Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 15:18
In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
Genesis 17:20
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 26:24
Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
Genesis 28:14
Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.
Leviticus 26:9
“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
Deuteronomy 7:13
He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
Jeremiah 33:22
As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ”
Revelation 7:9
After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
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Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he would be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 4:14
For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect.
Romans 4:15
For the law produces wrath; for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.
Romans 4:16
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 offspring, 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.
Romans 9:7
Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
Romans 9:8
That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
Romans 4:11
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.
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:29
If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.
Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.
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Romans 4:24
but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
Mark 5:36
But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”
2 Chronicles 20:20
They rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
Luke 8:50
But Jesus hearing it, answered him, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed.”
Matthew 9:28
When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
Mark 11:23
For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening, he shall have whatever he says.
John 11:40
Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”
Romans 1:11
For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established;
Romans 3:26
to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
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Genesis 18:10
He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.
Genesis 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
Genesis 18:12
Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
Genesis 18:13
Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’
Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes around, and Sarah will have a son.”
Hebrews 11:11
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.
Genesis 17:17
Then 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?”
Genesis 21:1
Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.
Luke 1:18
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.”
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Romans 5:5
and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Romans 8:24
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
Romans 15:4
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
1 Corinthians 13:13
But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
Colossians 1:23
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
2 Thessalonians 2:16
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,
1 John 3:3
Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
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John 2:22
When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.
John 4:53
So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.
John 7:31
But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”
John 8:30
As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
John 10:42
Many believed in him there.
John 12:42
Nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
John 17:8
for the words which you have given me I have given to them; and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.
Acts 9:42
This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
Acts 16:34
He brought them up into his house and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly with all his household, having believed in God.
Acts 17:12
Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
Acts 19:18
Many also of those who had believed came, confessing and declaring their deeds.
Acts 24:14
But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
2 Timothy 1:12
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
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