Romans 4:17

Tree of Life Version

(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”). He is our father in the sight of God in whom he trusted, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence that which does not exist.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 1:28

and God chose the lowly and despised things of the world, the things that are as nothing, so He might bring to nothing the things that are—

John 5:21

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

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were “not a people,” but now you are “God’s people.” You were shown “no mercy,” but now you have been shown “mercy.”

John 6:63

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no benefit. The words I have spoken to you are Spirit and are life!

Romans 8:11

And if the Ruach of the One who raised Yeshua from the dead dwells in you, the One who raised Messiah Yeshua from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Ruach who dwells in you.

John 5:25

Amen, amen I tell you, an hour is coming and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of Ben-Elohim. Those who hear will live!

Hebrews 11:12

So from one—and him as good as dead—were fathered offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and as uncountable as the sand on the seashore.

Isaiah 55:12

“Yes, you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills will break forth before you singing, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands!

Isaiah 48:13

Surely My hand founded the earth, My right hand spread out the heavens. When I call to them, they stand together.

Romans 3:29

Is God the God of the Jewish people only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also.

2 Peter 3:8

But don’t forget this one thing, loved ones, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.

Hebrews 11:7

By faith Noah, when warned about events not yet seen, in holy fear prepared an ark for the safety of his household. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

1 Timothy 6:13

I charge you before God who gives life to all things and Messiah Yeshua who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

Isaiah 44:7

Who is like Me? Let him proclaim and announce it! Let him arrange it in order for Me— as I established the ancient nation. Let them declare to them what is coming and future events.

Genesis 17:16

And I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son from her. I will bless her and she will give rise to nations. Kings of the peoples will come from her.”

Romans 9:26

And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ there they shall be called sons of the living God.”

Isaiah 49:12

“Behold, these shall come from afar. behold, these from the north and from the west, and from the land of Sinim.

Isaiah 43:6

I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring My sons from far and My daughters from the ends of the earth.

Genesis 28:3

Now may El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful and multiply you so that you will become an assembly of peoples.

1 Corinthians 15:45

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

Romans 4:2

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

Acts 15:18

known from of old.’

Matthew 3:9

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

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. See, I have blessed him and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him very very much. He will father twelve princes and I will make him a great nation.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you. For when I called him, he was but one, then I blessed him and multiplied him.”

Romans 4:18

In hope beyond hope, he trusted that he would become the father of many nations according to what was spoken—“So shall your descendants be.”

Romans 9:11

Yet before the sons were even born and had not done anything good or bad—so that God’s purpose and choice might stand not because of works but because of Him who calls—

Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen did not come from anything visible.