Romans 4:17

James Moffatt - New Testament

(as it is written, I have made you a father of many nations). Such a faith implies the presence of the God in whom he believed, a God who makes the dead live and calls into being what does not exist.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 1:28

God has chosen what is mean and despised in the world — things which are not, to put down things that are;

John 5:21

for as the Father raises the dead and makes them live, so the Son makes anyone live whom he chooses.

1 Peter 2:10

you who once were no people and now are God's people, you who once were unpitied and now are pitied.

John 6:63

What gives life is the Spirit: flesh is of no avail at all. The words I have uttered to you are spirit and life.

Romans 8:11

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live by his indwelling Spirit in your lives.

John 5:25

Truly, truly I tell you, the time is coming, it has come already, when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen will live;

Hebrews 11:12

Thus a single man, though he was physically impotent, had issue in number like the stars in heaven, countless as the sand on the seashore.

Romans 3:29

Or is God only the God of Jews? Is he not the God of the Gentiles as well? Surely he is.

2 Peter 3:8

Beloved, you must not ignore this one fact, that with the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day.

Hebrews 11:7

It was by faith that Noah, after being told by God what was still unseen, reverently constructed an ark to save his household; thus he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that follows faith.

1 Timothy 6:13

In the presence of God who is the Life of all, and of Christ Jesus who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you

Romans 9:26

on the very spot where they were told, 'You are no people of mine,' there shall they be called 'sons of the living God.'

1 Corinthians 15:45

Thus it is written, 'The first man, Adam, became an animate being, the last Adam a life-giving Spirit';

Romans 4:2

This, that if 'Abraham was justified on the score of what he did,' he has something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God.

Acts 15:18

who makes this known from of old.

Matthew 3:9

instead of presuming to say to yourselves, 'We have a father in Abraham.' I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Romans 4:18

For Abraham, when hope was gone, hoped on in faith, and thus became the father of many nations — even as he was told, So numberless shall your offspring be.

Romans 9:11

and though the children were still unborn and had done nothing either good or bad (to confirm the divine purpose in election which depends upon the call of God, not on anything man does),

Hebrews 11:3

It is by faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, and thus the visible was made out of the invisible.