Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
17 as the scripture says, "I have made you father of many nations." So the promise is good in the sight of God, in whom Abraham believed - the God who brings the dead to life and whose command brings into being what did not exist.
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As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.
18 Abraham believed and hoped, even when there was no reason for hoping, and so became "the father of many nations." Just as the scripture says, "Your descendants will be as many as the stars."
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Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
19 He was then almost one hundred years old; but his faith did not weaken when he thought of his body, which was already practically dead, or of the fact that Sarah could not have children.
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Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead.
20 His faith did not leave him, and he did not doubt God's promise; his faith filled him with power, and he gave praise to God.
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Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
21 He was absolutely sure that God would be able to do what he had promised.
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being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.
22 That is why Abraham, through faith, "was accepted as righteous by God."
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This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness.”
23 The words "he was accepted as righteous" were not written for him alone.
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The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone,
24 They were written also for us who are to be accepted as righteous, who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from death.
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but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
25 Because of our sins he was given over to die, and he was raised to life in order to put us right with God.
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He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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