Romans 4:17

New Century Version

As it is written in the Scriptures: “I am making you a father of many nations.” This is true before God, the God Abraham believed, the God who gives life to the dead and who creates something out of nothing.

Cross References

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her and give her a son, and you will be the father. She will be the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will come from her.”

Genesis 17:20

“As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him and give him many descendants. And I will cause their numbers to grow greatly. He will be the father of twelve great leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and give you many children, and may you become a group of many peoples.

Isaiah 43:6

I will tell the north: Give my people to me. I will tell the south: Don’t keep my people in prison. Bring my sons from far away and my daughters from faraway places.

Isaiah 44:7

Who is a god like me? That god should come and prove it. Let him tell and explain all that has happened since I set up my ancient people. He should also tell what will happen in the future.

Isaiah 48:13

I made the earth with my own hands. With my right hand I spread out the skies. When I call them, they come together before me.”

Isaiah 49:12

Look, people are coming to me from far away, from the north and from the west, from Aswan in southern Egypt.”

Isaiah 51:2

Look at Abraham, your ancestor, and Sarah, who gave birth to your ancestors. Abraham had no children when I called him, but I blessed him and gave him many descendants.

Isaiah 55:12

“So you will go out with joy and be led out in peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees in the fields will clap their hands.

Matthew 3:9

And don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘Abraham is our father.’ I tell you that God could make children for Abraham from these rocks.

John 5:21

Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to those he wants to.

John 5:25

I tell you the truth, the time is coming and is already here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will have life.

John 6:63

It is the Spirit that gives life. The flesh doesn’t give life. The words I told you are spirit, and they give life.

Acts 15:18

And these things have been known for a long time.’

Romans 3:29

Is God only the God of the Jews? Is he not also the God of those who are not Jews?

Romans 4:18

There was no hope that Abraham would have children. But Abraham believed God and continued hoping, and so he became the father of many nations. As God told him, “Your descendants also will be too many to count.”

Romans 4:2

If Abraham was made right by the things he did, he had a reason to brag. But this is not God’s view,

Romans 8:11

God raised Jesus from the dead, and if God’s Spirit is living in you, he will also give life to your bodies that die. God is the One who raised Christ from the dead, and he will give life through his Spirit that lives in you.

Romans 9:11

But before the two boys were born, God told Rebekah, “The older will serve the younger.” This was before the boys had done anything good or bad. God said this so that the one chosen would be chosen because of God’s own plan. He was chosen because he was the one God wanted to call, not because of anything he did.

Romans 9:26

“They were called, ‘You are not my people,’ but later they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

1 Corinthians 1:28

He chose what the world thinks is unimportant and what the world looks down on and thinks is nothing in order to destroy what the world thinks is important.

1 Corinthians 15:45

It is written in the Scriptures: “The first man, Adam, became a living person.” But the last Adam became a spirit that gives life.

1 Timothy 6:13

In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, I give you a command. Christ Jesus made the good confession when he stood before Pontius Pilate.

Hebrews 11:12

This man was so old he was almost dead, but from him came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. Like the sand on the seashore, they could not be counted.

Hebrews 11:3

It is by faith we understand that the whole world was made by God’s command so what we see was made by something that cannot be seen.

Hebrews 11:7

It was by faith that Noah heard God’s warnings about things he could not yet see. He obeyed God and built a large boat to save his family. By his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong, and he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.

1 Peter 2:10

At one time you were not a people, but now you are God’s people. In the past you had never received mercy, but now you have received God’s mercy.

2 Peter 3:8

But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: To the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day.