Romans 4:17

Revised Standard Version

as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

Cross References

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her; I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

Genesis 17:20

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

Genesis 28:3

God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth,

Isaiah 44:7

Who is like me? Let him proclaim it, let him declare and set it forth before me. Who has announced from of old the things to come? Let them tell us what is yet to be.

Isaiah 48:13

My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together.

Isaiah 49:12

Lo, these shall come from afar, and lo, 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 when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him and made him many.

Isaiah 55:12

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

Matthew 3:9

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

John 5:21

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

John 5:25

“Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, 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 that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Acts 15:18

says the Lord, who has made these things known from of old.’

Romans 3:29

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

Romans 4:18

In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations; as he had been told, “So shall your descendants be.”

Romans 4:2

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

Romans 8:11

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit which dwells in you.

Romans 9:11

though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad, in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of his call,

Romans 9:26

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

1 Corinthians 1:28

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,

1 Corinthians 15:45

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

1 Timothy 6:13

In the presence of God who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that the world was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of things which do not appear.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, took heed and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which comes by faith.

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were no people but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy but now you have received mercy.

2 Peter 3:8

But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.