Every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour. 1 Thessalonians 4:4

Trivia: What prevented Paul from visiting the Thessalonians?

According to Romans 4, what could Abraham do when he was about a hundred years old?


Get Sarah pregnant

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old; neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Romans 4:19
But heck, Abraham, when he was even older, managed to father six more children with a new wife without any divine assistance (Gen 25:1-2) Romans 25:1
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old; neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Romans 4:19

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