For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”
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For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”
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for with god can nothinge be vnpossible.
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For with God shall nothing be vnpossible.
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Passages linked to Luke 1:37 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 19:26 Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
- Jeremiah 32:27 “Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?
- Mark 10:27 Jesus, looking at them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”
- Jeremiah 32:17 “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.
- Luke 18:27 But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”
- Genesis 18:14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”
- Numbers 11:23 Yahweh said to Moses, “Has Yahweh’s hand grown short? Now you will see whether my word will happen to you or not.”
- Philippians 3:21 who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.
- Zechariah 8:6 Yahweh of Armies says: “If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes?” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Job 13:2 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Ver. 37. For with God, &c.] We never doubt God’s will, but we do in some measure doubt his power. See them both running parallel, Job 42:2.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For with God nothing shall be impossible. That is…
For with God nothing shall be impossible. That is consistent with his nature and perfections, with his counsels, purposes, and promises: every thing that he has said, purposed, or promised, he is able to do, and will; every word that he has spoken, every thing predicted by his prophets, or declared by his angels, and particularly this of a virgin's conceiving and bearing a Son: so that the angel not only answers her question, how this should be, but confirms her faith in it; partly by the instance of her cousin Elisabeth, and partly by observing the infinite omnipotence of God.
For with God nothing shall be impossible. That is consistent with his nature and perfections, with his counsels, purposes, and promises: every thing that he has said, purposed, or promised, he is able to do, and will; every word that he has spoken, every thing predicted by his prophets, or declared by his angels, and particularly this of a virgin's conceiving and bearing a Son: so that the angel not only answers her question, how this should be, but confirms her faith in it; partly by the instance of her cousin Elisabeth, and partly by observing the infinite omnipotence of God.
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luk 1:38And Mary said, behold the handmaid of the Lord,.... In which words she expresses her obedience of faith; she owns herself to be the handmaid of the Lord, and desires to obey him, and be submissive to him as such; and tacitly acknowledges her meanness, and great unworthiness:
be it unto me according to thy word; she assented to what the angel said should be unto her; she earnestly desired it might be, and firmly believed it would be; she set her "Amen" to the angel's message:
and the angel departed from her; to the heavenly regions from whence he came; to his great Lord and master, that sent him; having dispatched the business he came about, and which he was accountable to him for.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 37. For with God nothing shall be impossible.]…
Verse 37. For with God nothing shall be impossible.] Words of the very same import with those spoken by the Lord to Sarah, when he foretold the birth of Isaac, Ge 18:14, Is any thing too hard for the Lord? As there can be no doubt that Mary perceived this allusion to the promise and birth of Isaac, so she must have had her faith considerably strengthened by reflecting on the intervention of God in that case.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain For, &c.--referring to what was said by the angel…
For, &c.--referring to what was said by the angel to Abraham in like case (Gen 18:14), to strengthen her faith.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 37. Nothing shall be impossible—Ages ago (Gen_18:14) “The LORD”…
37. Nothing shall be impossible—Ages ago (Gen_18:14) “The LORD” had said in a similar announcement to Abraham, “Is any thing too hard for the Lord?” The angel refers to the analogous case of Elisabeth as proof to Mary that miraculous birth is an event that may now occur. The birth of an immortal being into existence is the greatest of natural events. The birth of an immortal being, without a human father, by a divine interposition, is one of the greatest of miracles. The birth of a human being from a true divine paternity, placing a God-man upon earth, is pre-eminently THE miracle of which all other miracles are but the subordinates and attendants. But all things are possible with God. To perform a contradiction is, indeed, not a possibility even with omnipotence. But then a contradiction is really nothing at all, and so does not come into the number of all things. God is fully able to suspend by miracle the laws of nature, and even reverse them all. For the laws of nature are nothing more than the ordinary action of the divine will, which God can vary just as easily as he can hold them uniform. The incarnation is just as easy a work with God as a maintenance of the ordinary laws of birth.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 37. nothing] Rather, no word. For the thought see…
37. nothing] Rather, no word. For the thought see Gen_18:14; Mat_19:26. “There is nothing too hard for thee,” Jer_32:17.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Nothing shall be impossible
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Nothing shall be impossible
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Gods omnipotence
It certainly is not possible for us to be in a position where omnipotence cannot assist us.
God hath servants everywhere; and, where we think He has none, His word can create a multitude. There are treasures hid in the sand, and the Lords chosen shall eat thereof. (C. H.Spurgeon.)
The scorn of impossibility
It is not a lucky word, this same impossible: no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouth. Who is he that says always, There is a lion in the way? Sluggard, thou must slay the lion, then; the way has to be travelled. In art, in practice, innumerable critics will demonstrate that most things are henceforth impossible; that we are got, once for all, into the region of perennial commonplace, and must contentedly continue there. Let such critics demonstrate; it is the nature of them: what harm is in it? Poetry once demonstrated to be impossible, arises the Burns, arises the Goethe. Unheroic commonplace being now clearly all we have to look for, comes Napoleon, comes the conquest of the world. It was proved by fluxionary calculus, that steamships could never get across from the farthest point of Ireland to the nearest of Newfoundland: impelling force, resisting force, maximum here, minimum there, by law of Nature and geometric demonstration. What could be done? The Great Eastern could weigh anchor from Bristol Port; that could be done. The Great Eastern, bounding safe through the gullets of the Hudson, threw her cable out on the capstan of New York, and left our still moist-paper demonstration to dry itself at leisure. Impossible he, cried Mirabeau, ne me dites jamais ce bete de mot (Never name to me that blockhead of a word). (Thomas Carlyle.)
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