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

Hebrews 11:12

Before him

Romans 3:29

Who quickeneth

Calleth

2 Peter 3:8

General references

Galatians 4:28

Bible References

I have

Therefore, there were born of one, who was dead as it respects these things, a posterity like the stars of heaven in multitude, and like the sand on the sea-shore, innumerable.

Before him

Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also the God of the Gen tiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

Who quickeneth

For if Abraham was. justified by works, he has cause for boasting, but not before God.

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised the Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwells in you.

and think not to say within yourselves, "We have Abraham for our father; for I say to you that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

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

It is the spirit that makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak to you are spirit and life.

So, also, it is written: The first man Adam became a living soul, the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

Even you, being dead to offenses and sins,

I charge you, in the sight of God, who makes all things alive, and before Christ Jesus, who, before Pontius Pilate, confessed a good confession,

Calleth

For those whom he foreknew, he predestinated to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren:

And it shall come to pass, that, in the place where it was said to them: You are not my people, there shall they be called the sons of the living God.

Known to God from eternity are all bis works.

and the ignoble things of the world, and the things that are despised, has God chosen, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are;

By faith Noah, after being warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; by which faith he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

who formerly were not a people, but now are the people of God; who had not received mercy, but now have received mercy.

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

General references

We, indeed, brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.