Romans 4:17

New English Translation

(as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed – the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

Cross References

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 28:3

May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north, ‘Hand them over!’ and to the south, ‘Don’t hold any back!’ Bring my sons from distant lands, and my daughters from the remote regions of the earth,

Isaiah 44:7

Who is like me? Let him make his claim! Let him announce it and explain it to me – since I established an ancient people – let them announce future events!

Isaiah 48:13

Yes, my hand founded the earth; my right hand spread out the sky. I summon them; they stand together.

Isaiah 49:12

Look, they come from far away! Look, some come from the north and west, and others from the land of Sinim!

Isaiah 51:2

Look at Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who gave you birth. When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, but I blessed him and gave him numerous descendants.

Isaiah 55:12

Indeed you will go out with joy; you will be led along in peace; the mountains and hills will give a joyful shout before you, and all the trees in the field will clap their hands.

Matthew 3:9

and don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

John 5:21

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

John 5:25

I tell you the solemn truth, a time 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

The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Acts 15:18

known from long ago.

Romans 3:29

Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not the God of the Gentiles too? Yes, of the Gentiles too!

Romans 4:18

Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”

Romans 4:2

For if Abraham was declared righteous by the works of the law, he has something to boast about – but not before God.

Romans 8:11

Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

Romans 9:11

even before they were born or had done anything good or bad (so that God’s purpose in election would stand, not by works but by his calling) –

Romans 9:26

“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”

1 Corinthians 1:28

God chose what is low and despised in the world, what is regarded as nothing, to set aside what is regarded as something,

1 Corinthians 15:45

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

1 Timothy 6:13

I charge you before God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who made his good confession before Pontius Pilate,

Hebrews 11:12

So in fact children were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.

Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

1 Peter 2:10

You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy.

2 Peter 3:8

Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.