Roma 4:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sebab sekalipun tidak ada dasar untuk berharap, namun Abraham berharap juga dan percaya, bahwa ia akan menjadi bapa banyak bangsa, menurut yang telah difirmankan: "Demikianlah banyaknya nanti keturunanmu."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab sekalipun tidak ada dasar untuk berharap, namun Abraham berharap juga dan percaya, bahwa ia akan menjadi bapa banyak bangsa, menurut yang telah difirmankan: "Demikianlah banyaknya nanti keturunanmu."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena tatkala Ibrahim sudah hilang pengharapan, maka ia sudah harap juga dengan iman, yang ia menjadi bapa kepada beberapa banyak bangsa, sebagaimana yang difirmankan: Bahwa demikianlah akan jadi benihmu kelak.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ (As it is written, that I haue made thee a father of many nations) before God, whom he beleued, which restoreth the dead vnto life, and calleth those thynges whiche be not, as though they were. ¹⁸ Who contrary to hope, beleued in hope, that he shoulde be the father of many nations, accordyng to that which was spoken: so shall thy seede be. ¹⁹ And he faynted not in the fayth, nor considered his owne body nowe dead, when he was almost an hundred yeres old, neither yet the deadnesse o Saraes wombe. ²⁰ He stackered not at the promise of God through vnbeliefe: but was strong in fayth, geuyng glorie to God: ²¹ And beyng full certified, that what he had promised, he was able also to perfourme. ²² And therfore was it reckened to hym for righteousnes.

Bible Verse Review
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against: Romans 4:19, Romans 5:5, Romans 8:24, Ruth 1:11-13, Proverbs 13:12, Ezekiel 37:11, Mark 5:35, Mark 5:36, Luke 1:18, Acts 27:25

So shall: Genesis 15:5, Genesis 15:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:11 - old Genesis 34:30 - and I shall 1 Samuel 30:6 - David Psalms 22:4 - General Psalms 42:5 - hope Isaiah 26:3 - because Matthew 14:31 - O thou Mark 11:23 - and shall John 3:33 - hath set Galatians 4:23 - but Hebrews 7:4 - Abraham Hebrews 11:12 - as the sand

Cross-References

Genesis 5:21
Henoch lyued sixtie and fiue yeres, & begate Methuselah.

Genesis 36:2
Esau toke his wiues of ye daughters of Chanaan: Ada ye daughter of Ebon an Hethite, and Aholibama the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sibeon an Heuite,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who against hope believed in hope,.... Abraham believed the promise of God,

that he might become the father of many nations, being assisted by a supernatural aid: "in hope"; of the fulfilment of it by the grace and power of God: "against hope": against all visible, rational grounds of hope; Sarah's womb and his own body being dead, but inasmuch as God had said it, he believed:

according to that which is spoken, so shall thy seed be; his faith rested upon the word of God, which showed the nature of it, and that it was of the right kind.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who against hope - Who against all apparent or usual ground of hope. He refers here to the prospect of a posterity; see Romans 4:19-21.

Believed in hope - Believed in what was promised to excite his hope. Hope here is put for the object of his hope - what was promised.

According to what was spoken - Genesis 15:5.

So shall thy seed be - That is, as the stars in heaven for multitude. Thy posterity shall be very numerous.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 4:18. Who against hope believed in hope — The faith of Abraham bore an exact correspondence to the power and never-failing faithfulness of God; for though, in the ordinary course of things, he had not the best foundation of hope, yet he believed that he should be the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken; namely, that his posterity should be like the stars of heaven for multitude, and like the dust of the earth.