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 is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

And may God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you may be a multitude of peoples.

Because of this came into being from one, and that of one having died, even as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

Before him

Or is He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the nations? Yes, of the nations also,

Who quickeneth

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has a boast; but not before God.

But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.

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

For as the Father raises the dead and makes alive, even so the Son of Man makes alive whomever He wills.

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

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

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

I charge you before God (who makes all things alive) and in the sight of Christ Jesus (who witnessed the good confession to Pontius Pilate),

Calleth

For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.

And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them. "You are not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God."

I will say to the north, 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, as I, shall call, and shall declare it and set it in order for Me, since I placed the people of old? And the things that are coming, and shall come, let them declare to them.

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

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

All His works are known to God from eternity.

and God has chosen the base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are;

By faith Noah, having been warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

you who then were not a people, but now the people of God, those not pitied then, but now pitied.

But, beloved, let not this one thing be hidden from you, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

General references

And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then shall your seed also be counted.

But brothers, we, like Isaac, are children of promise.