Romans 4:21

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
because he was fully convinced that what God had promised, he was also able to do.

King James Version (1611)
And being fully perswaded, that what he had promised, he was able also to performe.

King James Version
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

English Standard Version
fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.

New American Standard Bible
and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.

New Century Version
Abraham felt sure that God was able to do what he had promised.

Amplified Bible
being fully convinced that God had the power to do what He had promised.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.

Legacy Standard Bible
and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to do.

Berean Standard Bible
being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.

Contemporary English Version
Abraham was certain that God could do what he had promised.

Complete Jewish Bible
for he was fully convinced that what God had promised he could also accomplish.

Darby Translation
and being fully persuaded that what he has promised he is able also to do;

Easy-to-Read Version
Abraham felt sure that God was able to do what he promised.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Being fully assured that he which had promised, was also able to doe it.

George Lamsa Translation
He felt assured that what God had promised him, God was able to fulfill.

Good News Translation
He was absolutely sure that God would be able to do what he had promised.

Lexham English Bible
and being fully convinced that what he had promised, he was also able to do.

Literal Translation
and being fully persuaded that what He has promised, He is also able to do.

American Standard Version
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Bible in Basic English
And being certain that God was able to keep his word.

Hebrew Names Version
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

International Standard Version
being absolutely convinced that God would do what he had promised.Psalm 115:3; Luke 1:37,45; Hebrews 11:19;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
and was sure that what he had promised to him Aloha could fulfil.

Murdock Translation
and felt assured, that what God had promised to him, he was able to fulfill.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And beyng full certified, that what he had promised, he was able also to perfourme.

English Revised Version
and being fully assured that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

World English Bible
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And being fully assured, that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Weymouth's New Testament
and being absolutely certain that whatever promise He is bound by He is able also to make good.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
yyuynge glorie to God, witynge moost fulli that what euere thingis God hath bihiyt, he is myyti also to do.

Update Bible Version
and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Webster's Bible Translation
And being fully persuaded, that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

New English Translation
He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.

New King James Version
and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

New Living Translation
He was fully convinced that God is able to do whatever he promises.

New Life Bible
He was sure God was able to do what He had promised.

New Revised Standard
being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And being fully persuaded (that), - what he hath promised, able is he also to perform:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Most fully knowing that whatsoever he has promised, he is able also to perform.

Revised Standard Version
fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
full certifyed that what he had promised that he was able to make good.

Young's Literal Translation
and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& was sure, that loke what God promyseth, he is able to make it good.

Mace New Testament (1729)
by the full persuasion he had, that what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

Simplified Cowboy Version
He was absolutely positive God wouldn't go back on his word.

Contextual Overview

¹⁷We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!" ¹⁹Abraham didn't focus on his own impotence and say, "It's hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child." Nor did he survey Sarah's decades of infertility and give up. He didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said. That's why it is said, "Abraham was declared fit before God by trusting God to set him right." But it's not just Abraham; it's also us! The same thing gets said about us when we embrace and believe the One who brought Jesus to life when the conditions were equally hopeless. The sacrificed Jesus made us fit for God, set us right with God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fully: Romans 8:38, 2 Timothy 1:12, Hebrews 11:13

he was able: Romans 14:4, Genesis 18:14, Psalms 115:3, Jeremiah 32:17, Jeremiah 32:27, Matthew 19:26, Luke 1:37, Luke 1:45, 2 Corinthians 9:8, Hebrews 11:19

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:20 - hath performed Zechariah 8:6 - should Luke 1:38 - Behold John 4:50 - Go Acts 27:25 - I believe Romans 4:19 - being Galatians 3:6 - as Ephesians 3:20 - able 2 Timothy 1:5 - I am Hebrews 11:11 - because 1 John 3:19 - assure

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And being fully persuaded,.... He had not only faith, a strong faith, but full assurance of faith:

that what he [God] had promised; though it was so long ago, and there were so many difficulties in the way;

he was able, being the Lord God Almighty,

to perform; so his faith rested upon the power of God, with whom nothing is impossible.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And being fully persuaded - Thoroughly or entirely convinced; Luke 1:1; Romans 14:5; 2 Timothy 4:5, 2 Timothy 4:17.

He was able - Compare Genesis 18:14. This was not the only time in which Abraham evinced this confidence. His faith was equally implicit and strong when he was commanded to sacrifice his promised son; Hebrews 11:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 21. And being fully persuaded — πληροφορηθεις, his measure: his soul was full of confidence, that the truth of God bound him to fulfil his promise and his power enabled him to do it.