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

Hebrews 11:12

Before him

Romans 3:29

Who quickeneth

Calleth

2 Peter 3:8

General references

Galatians 4:28

Bible References

I have

Wherefore there sprang even from one, and him become as dead, a race like the stars of heaven in multitude, and like the sand by the seashore which cannot be numbered.

Before him

Or is God [the God] of Jews alone? Is he not also the God of gentiles? Yea, of gentiles also.

Who quickeneth

For if Abraham was accepted as righteous through works, he hath ground of boasting. But he hath no ground of boasting before God.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he who raised up Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

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

For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and giveth them life, so the Son also giveth life to whom he will.

It is the spirit which maketh alive; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit, and are life.

Thus is it also written: "The first man Adam became a living soul;" the last Adam a lifegiving spirit.

and you also [he raised up], who were dead through your trespasses and sins,

I charge thee before God, who giveth life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who under Pontius Pilate testified the good profession,

Calleth

For he determined beforehand that those whom he foreknew should be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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

which were known from the beginning."

and the mean things of the world, and the things which are despised, did God choose, the things which are not, to bring to nought things that are;

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

who once were not a people, but are now the people of God; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

But forget not, beloved, this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

General references

But ye, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of a promise.