Romans 4:17

Modern King James Version

(as it has been written, "I have made you a father of many nations") before God, whom he believed, who makes the dead live, and calls the things which do not exist as though they do exist.

Cross References

Genesis 17:16

And I will bless her, and give you a son also of her. Yes, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations, kings of people shall be from her.

Genesis 17:20

And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall father twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 28:3

And may God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you may be a multitude of peoples.

Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Do not keep back; bring My sons from far and My daughters from the ends of the earth;

Isaiah 44:7

And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it and set it in order for Me, since I placed the people of old? And the things that are coming, and shall come, let them declare to them.

Isaiah 48:13

My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens. I called; they stood up together.

Isaiah 49:12

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

Isaiah 51:2

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

Isaiah 55:12

For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break out before you into singing, 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 to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

John 5:21

For as the Father raises the dead and makes alive, even so the Son of Man makes alive whomever He wills.

John 5:25

Truly, truly, I say to you, The hour is coming and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they who hear shall live.

John 6:63

It is the Spirit that makes alive, 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 He the God of the Jews only, and not also of the nations? Yes, of the nations also,

Romans 4:18

For he who beyond hope believed on hope for him to become the father of many nations (according to that which was spoken, "So your seed shall be").

Romans 4:2

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has a boast; but not before God.

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of the One who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised up Christ from the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive by His Spirit who dwells in you.

Romans 9:11

(for the children had not yet been born, neither had done any good or evil; but that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who called,)

Romans 9:26

And it shall be, 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 base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, in order to bring to nothing things that are;

1 Corinthians 15:45

And so it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul," the last Adam was a life-giving Spirit.

1 Timothy 6:13

I charge you before God (who makes all things alive) and in the sight of Christ Jesus (who witnessed the good confession to Pontius Pilate),

Hebrews 11:12

Because of this came into being from one, and that of one having died, even as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that the ages were framed by a word of God, so that the things being seen not to have come into being out of the things that appear.

Hebrews 11:7

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

1 Peter 2:10

you who then were not a people, but now the people of God, those not pitied then, but now pitied.

2 Peter 3:8

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