concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
Parallel translations
- KJV Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
- BSB Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.
- NKJV concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.
- NASB He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type.
- NLT Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life again. And in a sense, Abraham did receive his son back from the dead.
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- Rom 4:17–21As 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.
- Matt 9:28When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
- Eph 3:20Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
- Gen 22:13Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
- Heb 11:11–12By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.
- Gen 22:4–5On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
- Heb 9:24For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
- Rom 5:14Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come.
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