Romans 4:17

As it is written, For I have set thee father of many folks (or For I have made thee the father of many nations and peoples), before God to whom thou hast believed. The which God quickeneth dead men, [or The which quickeneth the dead], (or The which God giveth life to the dead), and calleth those things that be not, as those that be.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King 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.

In Context

16Therefore rightwiseness is of (the) faith, (so) that by grace (the) promise be stable [or be steadfast] to each seed, not to that seed only that is of the law, but to that that is of the faith of Abraham, which (or who) is (the) father of us all.

18[The] Which Abraham against hope believed into hope, that he should be made father of many folks (or that he would be made the father of many nations and peoples), as it was said to him [or after that it is said to him], Thus shall thy seed be, as the stars of (the) heaven (s), and as the gravel [or (the) sand] that is in the brink of the sea (or and like the sand that is on the seashore).

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Cross References

Genesis 17:4I am, and my covenant of peace is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of many folks (or and thou shalt be the father of many nations);

Genesis 17:20also on Ishmael I have heard thee, lo! I shall bless him, and I shall increase (him), and I shall multiply him greatly; he shall engender twelve dukes, and I shall make him into a great folk. (and regarding Ishmael, I have heard thee, behold! I shall bless him, and I shall increase him, and I shall greatly multiply him; he shall beget twelve princes, and I shall make him into a great nation.)

Genesis 28:3Soothly Almighty God bless thee (or And may Almighty God bless thee), and make thee to increase, and multiply thee, (so) that thou be into companies of peoples;

Isaiah 44:7Who is like me? call he, and tell, and declare (the) order (of things) to me, since I made [the] eld people (or since I made the people of old, or long ago); tell he (out) to them (the) things to coming, and that (that) shall be.

Isaiah 49:12Lo! these men shall come from [a] far, and lo! they shall come from the north, and from the sea, and these from the south land. (Behold! these men shall come from afar, and behold! they (shall come) from the north, and (from) the west, and from the land of Sinim or and from the land of Syene, (that is, from Aswan in the south).)

Matthew 3:9and do not ye say within you (rselves), We have Abraham to our father [or We have the father Abraham]; for I say to you, that God is mighty to raise up (out) of these stones the sons of Abraham. (and do not say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I tell you, that God is mighty enough to raise up the sons of Abraham from these stones.)

Matthew Henry on Romans 4:10-23

The Case of Abraham. ( a. d. 58.) 9 Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. 10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision. 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not… Read the whole commentary →

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