Romans 4:17

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.

I have

Genesis 17:4

Genesis 28:3

Hebrews 11:12

Before him

Romans 3:29

Who quickeneth

Calleth

General references

Genesis 13:16

Galatians 4:28

Bible References

I have

I, behold my covenant with thee, thou being father of a multitude of nations.

And God Almighty will bless thee, and will make thee fruitful, and will multiply thee, and thou wert for an assembly of nations.

Wherefore also from one were they born, and these of him having been dead, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand near the lip of the sea innumerable.

Before him

Or only the God of the Jews? and not also of the nations? Yes, also of the nations:

Who quickeneth

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has boasting; but not toward God.

And if the Spirit of him having raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he having raised up Christ from the dead will make alive also your mortal bodies by his Spirit dwelling in you.

And think not to say in yourselves we have Abraham a father; for I say to you that God can of these stones raise up children to Abraham.

For as the Father arouses the dead, and makes alive; so also the Son makes alive whom he will.

It is the spirit making alive; the flesh profits nothing: the words which I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

So also has been written, The first man Adam was born into a living soul; and the last Adam into a spirit making alive.

And ye being dead in faults and in sins;

I beseech thee before God, making all things alive, and Christ Jesus, he having witnessed to Pontius Pilate the good confession;

Calleth

For whom he before knew, he also before determined of the form of the image of his Son, for him to be first born in many brethren.

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye not my people; there shall they be called the sons of the living God.

Say to the north, Thou shalt give, and to the south thou shalt not withhold: bring in my sons from far off, and my daughters from the extremities of the earth;

And who as I shall call and announce it, and set it in order for me from my placing the people of old? and the things coming and that shall come, they shall announce to them.

Behold, these shall come from far off; and behold, these from the north, and from the sea; and these from the land of Sinim.

For with joy shall ye go forth, and in peace shall ye be led forth; the mountains and hills shall break forth before you into shouting, and all the trees of the field shall clap the hand.

Known to God are all his works from eternity.

And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:

By faith Noah, having an intimation of the divine will of things not yet seen, being circumspect, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; by which he condemned the world, and by faith became an heir of justice.

Who once not a people, and now the people of God: they not commiserated, and now commiserated.

And let not this one thing be unknown to you, dearly beloved, that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

General references

And I made thy seed as the dust of the earth, that if a man shall be able to reckon up the dust of the earth, thy seed also shall be reckoned up.

And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise.