Romans 4:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ Hoping against hope, he believed that he would become “the father of many nations,” according to what was said, “So shall your descendants be.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ [For Abraham, human reason for] hope being gone, hoped in faith that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been promised, So [numberless] shall your descendants be. [Gen. 15:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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 shall thy seed be.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ When it was beyond hope, he had faith in the hope that he would become the father of many nations, in keeping with the promise God spoke to him: “That’s how many descendants you will have.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And he believed, with a hope beyond hope, so that he might become the father of many nations, according to what was said to him: "Thus shall your posterity shall be."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

Romans 4:18 Cross References

Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’

Luke 1:18

Zechariah said to the angel, “How can I know that this will happen? For I am an old man, and my wife is getting on in years.”

Acts 27:25

So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.

Romans 4:17

as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”), in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

Romans 4:19

He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was already as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years old), and the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.

Romans 5:5

and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.

Romans 8:24

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what one already sees?

Hebrews 6:19

We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the curtain,