Romans 4:18
For Abraham, when hope was gone, hoped on in faith, and thus became the father of many nations ??even as he was told, So numberless shall your offspring be.
Mark 5:35-36
He was still speaking when a message came from the house of the synagogue-president, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher to come any further?"
Luke 1:18
Zechariah said to the angel, "But how am I to be sure of this? I am an old man myself, and my wife is advanced in years."
Acts 27:25
Cheer up, men! I believe God, I believe it will turn out just as I have been told.
Romans 4:17
(as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations). Such a faith implies the presence of the God in whom he believed, a God who makes the dead live and calls into being what does not exist.
Romans 4:19
His faith never quailed, even when he noted the utter impotence of his own body (for he was about a hundred years old) or the impotence of Sara's womb;
Romans 8:24
We were saved with this hope in view. Now when an object of hope is seen, there is no further need to hope. Who ever hopes for what he sees already?