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

Behold my covenant with thee: Thou shalt be a father of many Gentiles.

And may God Almighty bless thee and make thee fruitful and multiply thee that thou may be a congregation of peoples

Therefore there sprang even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Before him

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

Who quickeneth

For if Abraham were justified by works, he has reason to glory in himself, but not before God.

And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up the Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you.

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

For as the Father raises up the dead and gives them life; even so the Son gives life unto whom he will.

The Spirit is he that gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken unto you, they are Spirit and they are life.

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a life-giving Spirit.

And he has made you alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

I give thee charge in the sight of God, who gives life to all things and before Christ Jesus, who testified before Pontius Pilate a good profession;

Calleth

For unto those whom he knew beforehand, he also marked out beforehand the way that they might be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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

I will say to the north wind, Give up, and to the south, Do not keep back; bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth

And who shall call as I do and declare this in advance and set it in order for me, since I made the people of the world? Let them declare unto them the things that are near and the things that shall come.

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

For ye shall go out with joy, and be returned with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

and that which is vile of the world and that which is despised God has chosen, and things which are not, to bring to nought the things that are,

By faith Noah, having received revelation of things not seen as yet, with great care prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and was made heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Ye who in the time past were not a people, but are now the people of God, who in the time past had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

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

General references

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if someone could number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

So that we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.