Bible Language Cross References for the verse Romans 4:19 in NET
- 1 When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.
- 2 Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants."
- 3 Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,
- 4 "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
- 5 No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
- 6 I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
- 7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- 8 I will give the whole land of Canaan� the land where you are now residing� to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God."
- 9 Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
- 10 This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
- 11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.
- 12 Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.
- 13 They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder.
- 14 Any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people� he has failed to carry out my requirement."
- 15 Then God said to Abraham, "As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.
- 16 I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!"
- 17 Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"
- 18 Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live before you!"
- 19 God said, "No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.
- 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.
- 21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."
- 22 When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
- 23 Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.
- 24 Now Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised;
- 25 his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.
- 26 Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.
- 27 All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
- 1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.
- 2 For by it the people of old received God's commendation.
- 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God's command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.
- 4 By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.
- 5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.
- 6 Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
- 7 By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
- 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.
- 9 By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.
- 10 For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
- 11 By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.
- 12 So in fact children were fathered by one man� and this one as good as dead� like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.
- 13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.
- 14 For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.
- 15 In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.
- 16 But as it is, they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
- 17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.
- 18 God had told him, "Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,"
- 19 and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.
- 20 By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.
- 21 By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff.
- 22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.
- 23 By faith, when Moses was born, his parents hid him for three months, because they saw the child was beautiful and they were not afraid of the king's edict.
- 24 By faith, when he grew up, Moses refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
- 25 choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin's fleeting pleasure.
- 26 He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.
- 27 By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king's anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.
- 28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.
- 29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up.
- 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them for seven days.
- 31 By faith Rahab the prostitute escaped the destruction of the disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace.
- 32 And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.
- 33 Through faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, gained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions,
- 34 quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness, became mighty in battle, put foreign armies to flight,
- 35 and women received back their dead raised to life. But others were tortured, not accepting release, to obtain resurrection to a better life.
- 36 And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
- 37 They were stoned, sawed apart, murdered with the sword; they went about in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
- 38 (the world was not worthy of them); they wandered in deserts and mountains and caves and openings in the earth.
- 39 And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.
- 40 For God had provided something better for us, so that they would be made perfect together with us.