And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
Parallel translations
- WEB and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.
- BSB being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.
- NKJV and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.
- NASB and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.
- NLT He was fully convinced that God is able to do whatever he promises.
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Quick answer
Abraham was fully convinced that God could do what he had promised. Faith rests on God's power to keep his word.
Overview
Paul sums up Abraham's faith as full assurance that God is 'able to perform' what he promised. Faith is confidence in God's faithfulness and omnipotence. Such assurance is the proper response to the gospel, in which God promises and accomplishes salvation through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Luke 1:37For with God nothing shall be impossible.
- Jer 32:27Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
- Luke 1:45And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
- Jer 32:17Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
- Heb 11:19Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
- Gen 18:14Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
- 2 Tim 1:12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
- Matt 19:26But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
- Rom 14:4Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
- Ps 115:3But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
- 2 Cor 9:8And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
- Rom 8:38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
- Heb 11:13These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
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