Eze 37:1-14, Rom 4:17-25, 2Cor 4:13-14, Heb 11:19 | ESV | STEP | The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley ; it was full of bones .

1 ^aThe hand of the Lord was upon me, and ^bhe brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; ^{▼▼Or plain; also verse 2} it was full of bones. 2 And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. 3 And he said to me, ^d“Son of man, ^ecan these bones live?” And ^fI answered, “O Lord God, you know.” 4 Then he said to me, ^g“Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, ^hO dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause ⁱbreath ^{▼▼Or spirit; also verses 6, 9, 10} to enter you, and you shall live. 6 ^kAnd I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and ^lcover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, ^mand you shall know that I am the Lord.”

7 So I prophesied ⁿas I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, ^oa rattling, ^{▼▼Or an earthquake (compare 3:12, 13)} and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But ^qthere was no breath in them. 9 Then he said to me, ^r“Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, ^sson of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God: Come from ^tthe four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” 10 So I prophesied ^uas he commanded me, and ^vthe breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.

11 Then he said to me, ^w“Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and ^xour hope is lost; ^ywe are indeed cut off.’ 12 Therefore ^zprophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, ^aaI will open your graves and raise you from your graves, O my people. And ^abI will bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And ^acyou shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people. 14 And ^adI will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the Lord; ^aeI have spoken, and I will do it, declares the Lord.”

Romans 4:17-25

17 as it is written, ^af“I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, ^agwho gives life to the dead and calls into existence ^ahthe things that do not exist. 18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, ^ai“So shall your offspring be.” 19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was ^ajas good as dead ( ^aksince he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered ^althe barrenness ^{▼▼Greek deadness} of Sarah’s womb. 20 No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, 21 fully convinced that ^anGod was able to do what he had promised. 22 That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” 23 But ^aothe words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, 24 but for ours also. It will be counted to us ^apwho believe in ^aqhim who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, 25 ^arwho was delivered up for our trespasses and raised ^asfor our justification.

2 Corinthians 4:13-14

13 Since we have ^atthe same spirit of faith according to what has been written, ^au“I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, 14 knowing that ^avhe who raised the Lord Jesus ^awwill raise us also with Jesus and ^axbring us with you into his presence.

Hebrews 11:19

19 ^ayHe considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back.