Romans 4:17

Modern English Version

(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations” ) before God whom he believed, and who raises the dead, and calls those things that do not exist as though they did.

Cross References

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her and also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold. I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a multitude of people.

Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north, “Give them up,” and to the south, “Do not keep them back. Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth,

Isaiah 44:7

Who is like Me? Let him proclaim and declare it, and recount it in order for Me, since I appointed the ancient people. And let them declare to them the things that are coming, and shall come.

Isaiah 48:13

My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has spanned the heavens; when I call to them, they stand up together.

Isaiah 49:12

Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Syene.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

Isaiah 55:12

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

Matthew 3:9

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

John 5:21

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom He will.

John 5:25

Truly, truly I say to you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, 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

Known to God are all His works since the beginning of the world.

Romans 3:29

Is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,

Romans 4:18

Against all hope, he believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”

Romans 4:2

If Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you.

Romans 9:11

For before the children had been born, having done neither evil nor good, so that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but through Him who calls,

Romans 9:26

and, “In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they shall be called ‘sons of the living God.’ ”

1 Corinthians 1:28

And God has chosen the inferior things of the world and things which are despised. Yes, and He chose things which are nothing to nullify the things that are,

1 Corinthians 15:45

So it is written, “The first man Adam was made a living soul.” The last Adam was made a life-giving spirit.

1 Timothy 6:13

I command you, in the sight of God, who gives life to all things, and in the sight of Christ Jesus, who testified a good confession before Pontius Pilate,

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore from one man, who was as good as dead, sprang so many, a multitude as the stars of the sky and innumerable as the sand by the seashore.

Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that the ages were set by the word of God, so that things that are seen were not made out of things which are visible.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being divinely warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to save his family, by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

1 Peter 2:10

In times past, you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. You had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, do not be ignorant of this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as one thousand years, and one thousand years as one day.