TEACHING THE WORD

A. call things 1.Parallel Verses New International Version As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed--the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not. New Living Translation That is what the Scriptures mean when God told him, "I have made you the father of many nations." This happened because Abraham believed in the God who brings the dead back to life and who creates new things out of nothing. English Standard Version as it is written, â??I have made you the father of many nationsâ??â??in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.