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 also there were born of one, and those of one dead, [a posterity] like the stars of heaven for multitude, and like the sands on the sea-shore innumerable.

Before him

Is God [a God] of the Jews alone? and not also of the gentiles? Yes, also of the gentiles,

Who quickeneth

For if Abraham was justified by works he has [occasion for] boasting, but not before God.

And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you.

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

For as the Father raises the dead, and makes them alive, so also the Son makes alive whom he will.

The Spirit is that which makes alive; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

And thus it is written; The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

And you being dead in trespasses and sins,??2 in which you formerly walked according to the life of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit which now operates in the children of disobedience,

I charge you before the God who gives life to all [creatures], and Christ Jesus who made the good profession before Pontius Pilate,

Calleth

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers;

and in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called children of the living God.

known from eternity.

and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are,

By faith Noah having been divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen, fearing built the ark for the salvation of his house, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness by faith.

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

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

General references

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