17 (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.

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17 This accords with the Tanakh, where it says, “I have appointed you to be a father to many nations.”[a] Avraham is our father in God’s sight because he trusted God as the one who gives life to the dead and calls nonexistent things into existence.

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  1. Romans 4:17 Genesis 17:5

17 As the Scriptures say, “I have made you a father of many nations.”[a] This is true before God, the one Abraham believed—the God who gives life to the dead and speaks of things that don’t yet exist as if they are real.

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  1. Romans 4:17 Quote from Gen. 17:5.

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

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