Romans 4:17

The Text-Critical English New Testament

(just as it is written, “I have made yoʋ the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

Cross References

Matthew 3:9

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

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

“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

John 6:63

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no benefit. The words that I speak to you are spirit and life.

Acts 15:18

All God's works are known to him from long ago.

Romans 3:29

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

Romans 4:18

Against all hope Abraham believed in hope that he would become the father of many nations according to what had been spoken: “So shall yoʋr offspring be.”

Romans 4:2

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

Romans 8:11

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

Romans 9:11

though her sons were not yet born and had done nothing good or evil, in order for the purpose of God's choice to stand (not because of works but because of him who calls),

Romans 9:26

And in the 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 lowly and despised in the world, things that are regarded as nothing, to nullify the things that are regarded as something,

1 Corinthians 15:45

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

1 Timothy 6:13

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

Hebrews 11:12

And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that the universe was formed by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of what is visible.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, was moved with reverent fear and built an ark to save his household. By faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

2 Peter 3:8

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.