Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
Romans 4:18 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) 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.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 [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) 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 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 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 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. |
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Yisra'el: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
Zekharyah 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.*
Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.
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.
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.
and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;