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Romans 4:17 KJV
Romans · chapter 4 · verse 17 · King James Version
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.Romans 4:17 · King James Version
Romans 4:17 in context
15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
16Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
17(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
18Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
19And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb:
Cross references
- 1 Corinthians 1:28
- Genesis 17:4-5
- John 5:21
- Romans 8:29-30
- John 6:63
- 1 Peter 2:10
- Ephesians 2:1-5
- Romans 8:11
Key words (Strong's)
- quickenethzōopoieōto produce alive, begat or bear living young, to cause to live, make alive, give life, by…G2227 →
- believedpisteuōto think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in, of the thing…G4100 →
- writtengraphōto write, with reference to the form of the letters, to delineate letters on a tablet…G1125 →
- writtenhotithat, because, sinceG3754 →
- fatherpatērgenerator or male ancestor, either the nearest ancestor father of the corporeal nature…G3962 →
- beforekatenantiover against, opposite before, metaph. before oneG2713 →
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