JMNT(i)
18 who, to the side of expectation (or: more than or beyond expectation; beside hope; near the side of expectation)
trusted (believed; relied; put faith)
upon expectation (or: hope)
into the [
situation for]
him to become (to bring himself into being)
a father of many multitudes (nations; ethnic groups),
in accord with (down from and in line with)
that having been and still being spoken (or: declared),
"Thus shall progressively be your seed (or: offspring; descendants).
"
19 And so, not being weak (without strength; infirm)
in this faith, trust and loyalty, he attentively considered (studied, thought and perceived down upon)
his own body by this time (or: already)
having been made dead (or: deadened),
subsisting in the circumstances of (or: beginning to be under the possession of)
about one hundred years, as well as (or: also; and; even)
the state of deadness (or: deadening)
of Sarah’s womb,
20 but [
being moved]
into God’s Promise he was not divided in his judgment by unbelief (or: but by and in lack of trust he was not separated or undecided in view of, and with regard to, God’s Promise; or: yet unto God’s Promise he did not waiver or doubt in disloyalty),
but on the contrary, he was empowered and enabled by faith (or: in trust; for conviction; with loyalty),
giving glory (or: an opinion; an estimation; credit)
to God and a reputation for God,
21 and being carried to full conviction and assurance that what He had promised He continuously exists being capable and powerful to do (to make; to perform).