Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Romans 4:18 - King James Version - American Edition 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. 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 maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
And Zechari´ah said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
(as it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were:
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;