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Romans 4:17

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As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”v He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives lifew to the dead and callsx into being things that were not.y

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Cross references

  1. vGe 17:5
  2. w Jn 5:21
  3. xIsa 48:13
  4. y1Co 1:28

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations— in the presence of the God in whom he believed, the one who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.

NLTNew Living Translation

That is what the Scriptures mean when God told him, “I have made you the father of many nations.” This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who creates new things out of nothing.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

(just as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”) before God, in whom he believed, the one who makes the dead alive and who calls the things that are not as though they are,

KJV 1900King 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.