Romans 4:17

World English Bible

¹⁷As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.”Genesis 17:5 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.

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Romans 4:17

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁷As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations. [He was appointed our father] in the sight of God in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the dead and speaks of the nonexistent things that [He has foretold and promised] as if they [already] existed.^(A)

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Romans 4:17

New International Version

¹⁷As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.”^[a]^(A) He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life^(B) to the dead and calls^(C) into being things that were not.^(D)