Romans 4:17

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

As Scripture says-'I have made thee the Father of many nations.') And this they do in the sight of that God in whom Abraham had faith, and who gives life to the dead, and speaks of what does not yet exist as if it did.

Cross References

Matthew 3:9

And do not think that you can say among yourselves 'Abraham is our ancestor,' for I tell you that out of these very stones God is able to raise descendants for Abraham!

John 5:21

For, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them Life, so also the Son gives Life to whom he pleases.

John 5:25

In truth I tell you that a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the Dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and when those who listen will live.

John 6:63

It is the Spirit that gives Life; mere flesh is of no avail. In the teaching that I have been giving you there is Spirit and there is Life.

Acts 15:18

Says the Lord, as he does these things, foreknown from of old.'

Romans 3:29

Or can it be that God is the God only of the Jews? Is not he also the God of the Gentiles?

Romans 4:18

With no ground for hope, Abraham, sustained by hope, put faith in God; in order that, in fulfillment of the words-'So many shall thy descendants be,' he might become 'the Father of many nations.'

Romans 4:2

If he was pronounced righteous as the result of obedience, then he has something to boast of. Yes, but not before God.

Romans 8:11

And, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives within you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give Life even to your mortal bodies, through his Spirit living within you.

Romans 9:11

For in order that the purpose of God, working through selection, might not fail-a selection depending, not on obedience, but on his Call-Rebecca was told, before her children were born and before they had done anything either right or wrong,

Romans 9:26

And in the very place where it was said to them-"Ye are not my People", they shall be called Sons of the Living God.'

1 Corinthians 1:28

And God chose what the world counts poor and insignificant-- things that to it are unreal-to bring its 'realities' to nothing,

1 Corinthians 15:45

That is what is meant by the words-'Adam, the first man, became a human being'; the last Adam became a Life-giving spirit.

1 Timothy 6:13

I urge you, as in the sight of God, the source of all life, and of Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate made the great profession of Faith--

Hebrews 11:12

And so from one man--and that when his powers were dead--there sprang a people as numerous 'as the stars in the heavens or the countless grains of sand upon the shore.'

Hebrews 11:3

Faith enables us to perceive that the universe was created at the bidding of God--so that we know that what we see was not made out of visible things.

Hebrews 11:7

It was faith that enabled Noah, after he had received the divine warning about what could not then be foreseen, to build, in reverent obedience, an ark in which to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world, and became possessed of that righteousness which follows upon faith.

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were 'not a people,' but now you are 'God's People'; once you 'had not found mercy,' but now you 'have found mercy.'

2 Peter 3:8

But you, dear friends, must never shut your eyes to the fact that, to the Lord, one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.