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, behold, my covenant [shall be] with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations.

Now, may El-Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples.

And therefore these were fathered from one man, and [he] being as good as dead, as the stars of heaven in number and like the innumerable sand by the shore of the sea.

Before him

Or [is God] the God of the Jews only? [Is he] not also [the God] of the Gentiles? Yes, also of the Gentiles,

Who quickeneth

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you.

And do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham [as] father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes [them] alive, thus also the Son makes alive whomever he wishes.

The Spirit is the one who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Thus also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul"; the last Adam [became] a life-giving spirit.

And you, {although you were dead} in your trespasses and sins,

I command you, in the sight of God who gives life to all [things] and Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

Calleth

because [those] whom he foreknew, he also predestined [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brothers.

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

I will say to the north, 'Give!' and to [the] south, 'You must not withhold!' Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the end of the earth--

And who [is] like me? Let him proclaim [it]! And let him declare it and set it in order for me {since I established an eternal people} and things that are to come, and let them tell them [the things] that are coming.

Look! These shall come from afar, And look! These from [the] north and from [the] west and these from the land of Sinim."

For you shall go out in joy, and you shall be led in peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you, rejoicing and all the trees of the field shall clap hands.

known from of old.'

and the insignificant of the world, and the despised, God chose, the things that are not, in order that he might abolish the things that are,

By faith Noah, having been warned about things not yet seen, out of reverence constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family, by which he pronounced sentence on the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

who once [were] not a people, but now [are] the people of God, the ones [who were] not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy.

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your [notice], that one day with the Lord [is] like a thousand years, and a thousand years [is] like one day.

General references

I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth which, if anyone were able to count the dust of the earth, your descendants would be [so] counted.

But you, brothers, are children of the promise, just as Isaac.