Romans 4:17
15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
16 Therefore 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,
(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.
18 Who 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.
19 And 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 Sara’s womb:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.
- KJV
- (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.
- WEB
- As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
- ASV
- (as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.
- DARBY
- (according as it is written, I have made thee father of many nations,) before the God whom he believed, who quickens the dead, and calls the things which be not as being;
- BLB
- (as it has been written: “A father of many nations I have set you”) before [Him] whom he believed—God, the One making alive the dead and calling existing the [things] not as existing—
- ÅB
- – Som det står skrevet: «Til mange folks far har jeg satt deg» – Han er vår far overfor Gud, som han trodde på; han som gjør de døde levende og kaller det som ennå ikke finnes, som om det allerede er til.
- OTB
- Som det er skrevet: "Jeg har gjort deg til far for mange folkeslag." Han er vår far i Guds øyne, i Ham som han trodde på—Gud som gir liv til de døde og kaller på ting som ikke eksisterer.
- B1930
- - som skrevet er: Til mange folks far har jeg satt dig - for Guds åsyn, hvem han trodde, han som gjør de døde levende og nevner det som ikke er til, som om det var til.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 1:28
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
Read in contextGenesis 17:4–5
As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
Read in contextJohn 5:21
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Read in contextRomans 8:29–30
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Read in contextJohn 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Read in context1 Peter 2:10
Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
Read in contextRomans 8:11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Read in contextEphesians 2:1–5
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
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