17 I will indeed bless you(A) and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky(B) and the sand on the seashore.(C) Your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.(D)

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17 I will surely bless you(A) and make your descendants(B) as numerous as the stars in the sky(C) and as the sand on the seashore.(D) Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,(E)

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17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

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19 He considered[a] his own body to be already dead(A) (since he was about 100 years old)(B) and also considered the deadness of Sarah’s womb,(C) without weakening in the faith.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 4:19 Other mss read He did not consider

19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead(A)—since he was about a hundred years old(B)—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.(C)

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19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

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