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Romans 4:19

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:

KJV

καὶ μὴ ἀσθενήσας τῇ πίστει κατενόησεν τὸ ἑαυτοῦ σῶμα νενεκρωμένον, ἑκατονταετής που ὑπάρχων, καὶ τὴν νέκρωσιν τῆς μήτρας Σάρρας·

Greek NT

Et non infirmatus est fide, nec consideravit corpus suum emortuum, cum jam fere centum esset annorum, et emortuam vulvam Saræ.

Vulgate

And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

ASV

And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the dead womb of Sara.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Σάῤῥα
sarra
noun · 4×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατανοέω
katanoeo
verb · 14×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μήτρα
metra
noun · 2×
νέκρωσις
nekrosis
noun · 2×
νεκρόω
nekroo
verb · 3×
πίστις
pistis
noun · 243×
πού
pou
adverb · 8×
σῶμα
soma
noun · 141×
ἀσθενέω
astheneo
verb · 34×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
ἑκατονταέτης
ekatontaetes
adjective · 1×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑπάρχω
uparcho
verb · 60×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: πίστει | WH/Treg/NIV: πίστει | RP: + οὐ
  • πίστει — SBLGNT
  • πίστει — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + οὐ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: σῶμα | Holmes/WHmarg: σῶμα | WH/Treg/NIV/RP: + ἤδη
  • σῶμα — SBLGNT
  • σῶμα — SBLGNT, Westcott-Hort (margin)
  • + ἤδη — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§706Against all human hope, God promises descendants to Abraham, as the fruit of faith and of the power of the Holy Spirit.68 In Abraham's progeny all the nations of the earth will be blessed. This progeny will be Christ himself,69 in whom the outpouring of the Holy Spirit will "gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad."70 God commits himself by his own solemn o…
§723In Mary, the Holy Spirit fulfills the plan of the Father's loving goodness. With and through the Holy Spirit, the Virgin conceives and gives birth to the Son of God. By the Holy Spirit's power and her faith, her virginity became uniquely fruitful.105
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210208.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 17:15 — And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
  • Gen 17:17 — Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
  • Gen 17:17 — Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
  • Gen 18:11 — Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
  • Gen 21:5 — And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
  • Gen 24:36 — And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
  • Heb 11:11 — Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
  • John 20:27 — Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.
  • Luke 1:18 — And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
  • Mark 9:23 — Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
  • Matt 6:30 — Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
  • Matt 8:26 — And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
  • Matt 14:29 — And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.
  • Matt 14:31 — And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
  • Matt 15:28 — Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
  • Matt 21:21 — Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou
  • Rom 4:20 — He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
  • Rom 14:1 — Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.