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

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  1. 4.17 Or trusted

28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are,

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“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations.(A) No longer shall your name be Abram,[a] but your name shall be Abraham,[b] for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations.(B)

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  1. 17.5 That is, exalted ancestor
  2. 17.5 That is, ancestor of a multitude

29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family.[a](A) 30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.(B)

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  1. 8.29 Gk among many brothers

21 Indeed, just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.(A)

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10 Once you were not a people,
    but now you are God’s people;
once you had not received mercy,
    but now you have received mercy.(A)

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63 It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

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From Death to Life

You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world,[a] following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient.[b](A) All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,(B) but God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us(C) even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ[c]—by grace you have been saved—

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  1. 2.2 Gk according to the aeon
  2. 2.2 Gk sons of disobedience
  3. 2.5 Other ancient authorities read in Christ

11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus[a] from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through[b] his Spirit that dwells in you.(A)

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  1. 8.11 Other ancient authorities read Christ or the Christ or Jesus Christ
  2. 8.11 Other ancient authorities read on account of

25 “Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and is now here when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.(A)

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12 Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, “as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.”(A)

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12 For you shall go out in joy
    and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
    shall burst into song,
    and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.(A)

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13 My hand laid the foundation of the earth,
    and my right hand spread out the heavens;
when I summon them,
    they stand at attention.(A)

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29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of gentiles also? Yes, of gentiles also,

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Who is like me? Let them proclaim it;
    let them declare and set it forth before me.
Who has announced from of old the things to come?[a]
    Let them tell us[b] what is yet to be.(A)

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  1. 44.7 Cn: Heb from my placing an eternal people and things to come
  2. 44.7 Tg: Heb them

But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.(A)

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13 In the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you(A)

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16 I will bless her and also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”(A)

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By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with faith.(A)

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26 “And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
    there they shall be called children of the living God.”(A)

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12 Look, some shall come from far away,
    some from the north and from the west,
    and some from the land of Syene.[a](A)

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  1. 49.12 Q ms: MT Sinim

I will say to the north, “Give them up,”
    and to the south, “Do not withhold;
bring my sons from far away
    and my daughters from the end of the earth—(A)

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May God Almighty[a] bless you and make you fruitful and numerous, that you may become a company of peoples.(A)

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  1. 28.3 Traditional rendering of Heb El Shaddai

45 Thus it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.(A)

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For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.(A)

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