Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Parallel translations
- KJV And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
- BSB And so Abraham, after waiting patiently, obtained the promise.
- NKJV And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
- NASB And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.
- NLT Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.
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- Gen 12:2–3I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- Rom 4:17–25As 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.
- Gen 15:2–6Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
- Heb 6:12that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.
- Exod 1:7The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
- Gen 21:2–7Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
- Gen 17:16–17I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”
- Hab 2:2–3Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.
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