Cross references

Genesis 17:4

“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

Genesis 17:4 BSB

Genesis 17:4 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 35:11 (6 votes) and Romans 4:11–18 (5 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 6 to Hebrews 7.

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Which verses does Genesis 17:4 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

  2. And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised. …

  3. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

  4. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.

  5. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

  6. Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”

  7. I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

  8. Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah, and she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. …

  9. But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”

  10. This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom). Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite, …

Which verses point to Genesis 17:4?

The 10 strongest of 15.