Romans 4:17

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As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” The God Abraham believed in considers him to be our father. This is the God who gives life to the dead and creates things that didn’t exist before.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 1:28

God chose the things of this world that are common, and which are looked down on as if they were nothing, in order to discredit the things that are considered significant.

John 5:21

The Father raises the dead and gives them life; in the same way, the Son gives life to anyone he wishes.

1 Peter 2:10

Once you weren’t a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you hadn’t received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

John 6:63

The Spirit gives life; the flesh isn’t worth anything. The words I’ve spoken to you are full of the Spirit and they give life.

Romans 8:11

If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then the one who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.

John 5:25

Truly I tell you, a time is coming—and in fact, it has already come—when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

Hebrews 11:12

Abraham was also past the time when he could have children, but from that one man came as many children as the stars in the sky and the countless grains of sand on the seashore.

Romans 3:29

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he also the God of Gentiles? Yes, he’s their God too.

2 Peter 3:8

But don’t forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, out of great respect for God, built an ark to save his family after God warned him about things that could not yet be seen. By doing this Noah showed the world that it was guilty, but he was considered right with God because of his faith.

1 Timothy 6:13

In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and in the sight of Christ Jesus, who told the truth when he was a witness in front of Pontius Pilate, I give you a command.

Romans 9:26

He also says, “Where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ”

1 Corinthians 15:45

It is written, “The first man Adam became a living person.” But the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

Romans 4:2

Did he become right with God because of something he did? If so, he could brag about that (though he couldn’t brag to God).

Acts 15:18

things known from long ago.

Matthew 3:9

Don’t think you’re safe just because you can say, ‘We come from Abraham.’ I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham even from these stones.

Romans 4:18

Even though there was no reason for hope, Abraham still had hope, and he believed. That was how he became the father of many nations, exactly as God had promised. God had told him, “That is how many children you will have.”

Romans 9:11

But even before her twins were born, before they’d done anything good or bad, Rebekah was told, “The older son will serve the younger one.” This shows that God’s purpose was based firmly on his own choice, not on anything the children did.

Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that everything was made at God’s command, so that what we see was made out of what was not visible.