Romans 4:17

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

As it is written, *I have made you a father of many nations.* This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

Cross References

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.*

Genesis 17:20

As for Yishma'el, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 28:3

May El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

Isaiah 43:6

I will tell the north, 'Give them up!' and tell the south, 'Don't hold them back! Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth--

Isaiah 44:7

Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.

Isaiah 48:13

Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

Isaiah 49:12

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

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Avraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

Isaiah 55:12

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

Matthew 3:9

Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Avraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Avraham from these stones.

John 5:21

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

John 5:25

Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.

John 6:63

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Acts 15:18

All his works are known to God from eternity.'

Romans 3:29

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn't he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

Romans 4:18

Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, *So will your seed be.*

Romans 4:2

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

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Yeshua from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Messiah Yeshua from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Romans 9:11

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

Romans 9:26

*It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'*

1 Corinthians 1:28

and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

1 Corinthians 15:45

So also it is written, *The first man, Adam, became a living soul.* The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

1 Timothy 6:13

I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Messiah Yeshua, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

Hebrews 11:3

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith, Noach, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a teivah for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

1 Peter 2:10

who in time past were no people, but now are God's people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

2 Peter 3:8

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