18Who 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.|


In Context

15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

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 seed, 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.

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.

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 will your seed be.|

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.

20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn't waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

Romans 4:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:18Who 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:18Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:18Who 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:18Who 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:18Who 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18Who against hope believed with hope, that he should become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:18Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: 'So shall thy seed be;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:18Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall your seed be.