Romans 4:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

who is father of us all (according as it hath been written -- `A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe -- God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

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  • 1 Cor 1:28 : 28 and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --
  • John 5:21 : 21 `For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth;
  • John 6:63 : 63 the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
  • Gen 17:4-5 : 4 `I -- lo, My covenant `is' with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations; 5 and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;
  • 1 Pet 2:10 : 10 who `were' once not a people, and `are' now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness.
  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 And this one thing let not be unobserved by you, beloved, that one day with the Lord `is' as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;
  • Heb 11:7 : 7 By faith Noah, having been divinely warned concerning the things not yet seen, having feared, did prepare an ark to the salvation of his house, through which he did condemn the world, and of the righteousness according to faith he became heir.
  • Heb 11:12 : 12 wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that `is' by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.
  • Eph 2:1-5 : 1 Also you -- being dead in the trespasses and the sins, 2 in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others, 4 and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)
  • Gen 17:16 : 16 and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations -- kings of peoples are from her.'
  • Isa 44:7 : 7 And who as I, doth call and declare it, And arrange it for Me, Since My placing the people of antiquity, And things that are coming, And those that do come, declare they to them?
  • Isa 49:12 : 12 Lo, these from afar come in, And lo, these from the north, and from the sea, And these from the land of Sinim.
  • Isa 55:12 : 12 For with joy ye go forth, And with peace ye are brought in, The mountains and the hills Break forth before you `with' singing, And all trees of the field clap the hand.
  • Matt 3:9 : 9 and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have -- Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,
  • John 5:25 : 25 `Verily, verily, I say to you -- There cometh an hour, and it now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those having heard shall live;
  • Rom 3:29 : 29 The God of Jews only `is He', and not also of nations?
  • Rom 4:2 : 2 for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast -- but not before god;
  • Rom 8:11 : 11 and if the Spirit of Him who did raise up Jesus out of the dead doth dwell in you, He who did raise up the Christ out of the dead shall quicken also your dying bodies, through His Spirit dwelling in you.
  • Rom 8:29-30 : 29 because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren; 30 and whom He did fore-appoint, these also He did call; and whom He did call, these also He declared righteous; and whom He declared righteous, these also He did glorify.
  • Rom 9:26 : 26 and it shall be -- in the place where it was said to them, Ye `are' not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'
  • Acts 15:18 : 18 `Known from the ages to God are all His works;
  • Isa 48:13 : 13 Also, My hand hath founded earth, And My right hand stretched out the heavens, I am calling unto them, they stand together.
  • Gen 17:20 : 20 As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;
  • Gen 25:1-9 : 1 And Abraham addeth and taketh a wife, and her name `is' Keturah; 2 and she beareth to him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 And Jokshan hath begotten Sheba and Dedan; and the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim; 4 and the sons of Midian `are' Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah: all these `are' sons of Keturah. 5 And Abraham giveth all that he hath to Isaac; 6 and to the sons of the concubines whom Abraham hath, Abraham hath given gifts, and sendeth them away from Isaac his son (in his being yet alive) eastward, unto the east country. 7 And these `are' the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, a hundred and seventy and five years; 8 and Abraham expireth, and dieth in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered unto his people. 9 And Isaac and Ishmael his sons bury him at the cave of Machpelah, at the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite, which `is' before Mamre -- 10 the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth -- there hath Abraham been buried, and Sarah his wife. 11 And it cometh to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blesseth Isaac his son; and Isaac dwelleth by the Well of the Living One, my Beholder. 12 And these `are' births of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, hath borne to Abraham; 13 and these `are' the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their births: first-born of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, 14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa, 15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: 16 these are sons of Ishmael, and these their names, by their villages, and by their towers; twelve princes according to their peoples. 17 And these `are' the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years; and he expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people; 18 and they tabernacle from Havilah unto Shur, which `is' before Egypt, in `thy' going towards Asshur; in the presence of all his brethren hath he fallen. 19 And these `are' births of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham hath begotten Isaac; 20 and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife. 21 And Isaac maketh entreaty to Jehovah before his wife, for she `is' barren: and Jehovah is entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiveth, 22 and the children struggle together within her, and she saith, `If `it is' right -- why `am' I thus?' and she goeth to seek Jehovah. 23 And Jehovah saith to her, `Two nations `are' in thy womb, and two peoples from thy bowels are parted; and the `one' people than the `other' people is stronger; and the elder doth serve the younger.' 24 And her days to bear are fulfilled, and lo, twins `are' in her womb; 25 and the first cometh out all red as a hairy robe, and they call his name Esau; 26 and afterwards hath his brother come out, and his hand is taking hold on Esau's heel, and one calleth his name Jacob; and Isaac `is' a son of sixty years in her bearing them. 27 And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted `with' hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob `is' a plain man, inhabiting tents; 28 and Isaac loveth Esau, for `his' hunting `is' in his mouth; and Rebekah is loving Jacob. 29 And Jacob boileth pottage, and Esau cometh in from the field, and he `is' weary; 30 and Esau saith unto Jacob, `Let me eat, I pray thee, some of this red red thing, for I `am' weary;' therefore hath `one' called his name Edom `Red'; 31 and Jacob saith, `Sell to-day thy birthright to me.' 32 And Esau saith, `Lo, I am going to die, and what is this to me -- birthright?' 33 and Jacob saith, `Swear to me to-day:' and he sweareth to him, and selleth his birthright to Jacob; 34 and Jacob hath given to Esau bread and pottage of lentiles, and he eateth, and drinketh, and riseth, and goeth; and Esau despiseth the birthright.
  • Gen 28:3 : 3 and God Almighty doth bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and thou hast become an assembly of peoples;
  • Isa 43:6 : 6 I am saying to the north, `Give up,' And to the south, `Restrain not.' Bring in My sons from afar, And My daughters from the end of the earth.
  • 1 Tim 6:13 : 13 I charge thee, before God, who is making all things alive, and of Christ Jesus, who did testify before Pontius Pilate the right profession,
  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam `is' for a life-giving spirit,

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