'Nations' in the Bible

We have received grace and apostleship through Him to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations, on behalf of His name,

in God’s sight. As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.

He believed, hoping against hope, so that he became the father of many nations according to what had been spoken: So will your descendants be.

but now revealed and made known through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the command of the eternal God to advance the obedience of faith among all nations—