{"id":300,"date":"2008-01-16T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=300"},"modified":"2022-03-13T14:38:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T20:38:05","slug":"romans-418","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Romans 4:18"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span id=\"en-NKJV-28041\" class=\"text Rom-4-18\"><sup class=\"versenum\">18\u00a0<\/sup>who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, <span class=\"oblique\">\u201cSo shall your descendants be.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>against hope \u2014 an oxymoron, beyond hope. Abraham had hope contrary to human expectation.<\/h3>\n<h3>So shall thy seed be \u2014 referring to stars. <em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">And He brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and He said unto him, So shall thy seed be (<a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=4699\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Genesis 15:5<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18\u00a0who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, \u201cSo shall your descendants be.\u201d against hope \u2014 an oxymoron, beyond hope. Abraham had hope contrary to human expectation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=300\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6405,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/6405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}