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 covenant is with you: you will become the father of many nations.

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you become an assembly of peoples.

Therefore from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as innumerable as the grains of sand by the seashore.

Before him

Or is God for Jews only? Is He not also for Gentiles? Yes, for Gentiles too,

Who quickeneth

If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to brag about—but not before God.

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through His Spirit who lives in you.

And don’t presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being;

the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

In the presence of God, who gives life to all, and of Christ Jesus, who gave a good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you

Calleth

For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

And it will be in the place where they were told,
you are not My people,
there they will be called sons of the living God.

I will say to the north: Give them up!
and to the south: Do not hold them back!
Bring My sons from far away,
and My daughters from the ends of the earth—

Who, like Me, can announce the future?
Let him say so and make a case before Me,
since I have established an ancient people.
Let these gods declare the coming things,
and what will take place.

See, these will come from far away,
from the north and from the west,

and from the land of Sinim.

You will indeed go out with joy
and be peacefully guided;
the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

known from long ago.

God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something,

By faith Noah, after he was warned about what was not yet seen and motivated by godly fear, built an ark to deliver his family. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Once you were not a people,
but now you are God’s people;
you had not received mercy,
but now you have received mercy.

Dear friends, don’t let this one thing escape you: With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.

General references

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.