Romans 4:17 Cross References - LITV

¹⁷ according as it has been written, "I have appointed you a father of many nations;" before God, whom he believed, the One making the dead live, and calling the things that are not as if they were. Gen. 17:5

⁴ As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. ⁵ And your name no longer shall be Abram; but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.

¹⁶ and I have blessed her and have also given to you a son from her. Yea, I have blessed her and she shall become nations; kings of people shall be from her.

²⁰ And as to Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

¹ And Abraham added and took a wife, and her name was Keturah. ² And she bore to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. ³ And Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim and Leummim. ⁴ And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. ⁵ And Abraham gave all that was his to Isaac. ⁶ And to the sons of the concubines who were to Abraham, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away eastward, from his son Isaac, while still alive to an eastern land. ⁷ And these are the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, one hundred seventy five years. ⁸ And Abraham expired and died in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and was gathered to his people. ⁹ And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him at the cave of Mach-pelah, at the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite which is before Mamre, ¹⁰ The field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth. Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried there. ¹¹ And it happened after the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac lived by The Well of the Living One, My Beholder. ¹² And these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whom Hagar the Egyptian, the slave-girl of Sarah, bore to Abraham. ¹³ And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the first born of Ishmael was Nebajoth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, ¹⁴ and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, ¹⁵ Hadad, and Tema, and Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. ¹⁶ These were the sons of Ishmael, and these their names in their settlements and in their camps, twelve chiefs according to their nations. ¹⁷ And these were the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred thirty seven years. And he expired and died, and was gathered to his people. ¹⁸ And they lived from Havilah to Shur, which is facing Egypt as you come toward Assyria; he settled facing all his brothers. ¹⁹ And these were the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham: Abraham fathered Isaac. ²⁰ And Isaac was a son of forty years when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Padanaram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to him for a wife. ²¹ And Isaac prayed to Jehovah for his wife for she was barren. And Jehovah was entreated for him, and his wife Rebekah conceived. ²² And the sons struggled together within her. And she said, If this is right, why am I this way? And she went to ask Jehovah. ²³ And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in your womb; even two peoples shall break from your body And one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. ²⁴ And her days were fulfilled to bear. And behold! Twins were in her womb. ²⁵ And the first came out, all of him red like a hairy robe; and they called his name Esau. ²⁶ And afterward his brother came out, and his hand was holding to the heel of Esau; and his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was a son of sixty years when she bore them. ²⁷ And the boys grew up. And Esau became a man knowing hunting, a man of the field. And Jacob was a simple man, living in tents. ²⁸ And Isaac loved Esau, for game was in his mouth. And Rebekah loved Jacob. ²⁹ And Jacob boiled soup. And Esau came from the field, and he was faint. ³⁰ And Esau said to Jacob, Please let me eat of the red, this red soup, for I am faint. On account of this his name is called Edom. ³¹ And Jacob said, Sell me your birthright today. ³² And Esau said, Behold, I am going to die, and what good is this, a birthright to me? ³³ And Jacob said, Swear to me today. And he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob. ³⁴ And Jacob gave bread and soup of lentils to Esau. And he ate and drank, and rose up and left. And Esau despised the birthright.

³ And may God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful, and add to you; and may you become an assembly of nations.

⁶ I will say to the north, Give up! And to the south, Do not hold back! Bring My sons from afar, and bring My daughters from the ends of the earth;

⁷ And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare this, and set it in order before Me, since I placed the people of old? And as to things to come, even which shall come, let them declare concerning them.

¹³ My hand surely founded earth, and My right hand has stretched out the heavens; I called to them, they stood up together.

¹² Behold, these shall come from afar; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

¹² For you shall go out with joy and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break out into song before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap the palm.

⁹ And do not think to say within yourselves, We have a father, Abraham. For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

²¹ For even as the Father raises the dead, and gives life, so also the Son gives life to whomever He wills.

²⁵ Truly, truly, I say to you that an hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones hearing will live.

⁶³ It is the Spirit that gives life. The flesh does not profit, nothing! The words which I speak to you are spirit and are life.

¹⁸ All His works are known to God from eternity.

²⁹ Or is He the God of Jews only, and not also of the nations? Yes, of the nations also,

² For if Abraham was justified by works, he has a boast, but not with God.

¹¹ But if the Spirit of the One having raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the One having raised the Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies live through the indwelling of His Spirit in you.

²⁹ because whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers. ³⁰ But whom He predestinated, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; but whom He justified, these He also glorified.

²⁶ "And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there they will be called, Sons of the living God." LXX-Hos. 2:1; MT-Hos. 2:23

²⁸ And God chose the low-born of the world, and the despised, and the things that are not, so that He might bring to nothing the things that are,

⁴⁵ So also it has been written, "The" first "man", Adam, "became a living soul;" the last Adam a life-giving Spirit. Gen. 2:7

¹ and He worked in you who were once dead in trespasses and sins, ² in which you then walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience, ³ among whom we also all conducted ourselves in times past in the lusts of our flesh, doing the things willed of the flesh and of the understandings, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as the rest. ⁴ But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even we being dead in sins, He made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are being saved),

¹³ I charge you before God, He making all things alive, and Christ Jesus, He witnessing the good confession to Pontius Pilate,

⁷ Being warned by God about the things not yet having been seen, moved with fear, by faith Noah prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; through which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness according to faith.

¹² Because of this came into being from one (and that from one having died), seed even "as the stars of the heaven" in multitude and countless "as sand by the seaside." Gen. 22:17

¹⁰ you who then were "not a people, but now are the people" of God; "the one not pitied then but now pitied." Hos. 1:6, 9 2:1, 23

⁸ But let not this one thing be hidden from you, beloved, that one day with the Lord is "as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Psa. 90:4