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

As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.

So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered.

Before him

Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:

Who quickeneth

For if Abraham got righteousness by works, he has reason for pride; but not before God.

But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.

In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it.

The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

I give you orders before God, the giver of life, and Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate gave witness to the faith,

Calleth

Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:

And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.

I will say to the north, Give them up; and to the south, Do not keep them back; send back my sons from far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;

If there is one like me, let him come forward and say it, let him make it clear and put it in order before me: who has made clear in the past the things to come? let him make clear the future to me.

See, these are coming from far; and these from the north and the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.

Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.

And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

By faith Noah, being moved by the fear of God, made ready an ark for the salvation of his family, because God had given him news of things which were not seen at the time; and through it the world was judged by him, and he got for his heritage the righteousness which is by faith.

In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.

General references

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of the undertaking of God.