Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Before him

General references

Bible References

I have

Genesis 17:4
"Look, I've made a covenant with you. You will be the father of many nations.
Genesis 28:3
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful so that your descendants become a whole group of people.
Hebrews 11:12
Abraham was as good as dead, yet from this one man came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Before him

Romans 3:29
Is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the gentiles, too? Yes, of the gentiles, too,

Who quickeneth

Romans 4:2
For if Abraham was justified by actions, he would have had something to boast about though not before God.
Romans 8:11
And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then the one who raised the Messiah from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive by his Spirit who lives in you.
Matthew 3:9
Don't think you can say to yourselves, "We have father Abraham!' because I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones!
John 5:21
Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he chooses.
John 6:63
It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.
1 Corinthians 15:45
This, indeed, is what is written: "The first man, Adam, became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Ephesians 2:1
You used to be dead because of your offenses and sins
1 Timothy 6:13
Since you are in the presence of God, who gives life to everything, and in the presence of the Messiah Jesus, who gave a good testimony before Pontius Pilate, I solemnly charge you

Calleth

Romans 8:29
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that the Son might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 9:26
In the very place where it was told them, "You are not my people,' they will be called children of the living God."
Isaiah 43:6
I'll say to the north, "Give them up'! and to the south, "Don't keep them back!' Bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the ends of the earth
Isaiah 44:7
Who is like me? Let him proclaim and declare it, and lay it out for himself since he made an ancient people. And let him speak future events; let them tell him what will happen.
Isaiah 49:12
"Watch! They'll come from far away some from the north and from the west, and others from the region of China."
Isaiah 55:12
"For you will go out in joy, and come back with peace; the mountains and the hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees in the fields will clap their hands.
Acts 15:18
that have been known from long ago.'
1 Corinthians 1:28
And God chose what is insignificant in the world, what is despised, what is nothing, in order to destroy what is something,
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, reverently prepared an ark to save his family, and by faith he condemned the world and inherited the righteousness that comes by faith.
1 Peter 2:10
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
2 Peter 3:8
Don't forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.

General references

Genesis 13:16
I'll make your descendants as plentiful as the specks of dust of the earth, so that if one could count the specks of dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.
Galatians 4:28
So you, brothers, are children of the promise, like Isaac.

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