Hebrews 11:8
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8 By faith (A)Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place (B)that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
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Genesis 12:1-4
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The Call of Abram
12 Now (A)the Lord said[a] to Abram, “Go from your country[b] and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 (B)And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 (C)I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and (D)in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[c]
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from (E)Haran.
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- Genesis 12:1 Or had said
- Genesis 12:1 Or land
- Genesis 12:3 Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves
Acts 7:2-4
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2 And Stephen said:
(A)“Brothers and fathers, hear me. (B)The God (C)of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, (D)before he lived in Haran, 3 and said to him, (E)‘Go out from your land and from your kindred and go into the land that I will show you.’ 4 (F)Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And (G)after his father died, (H)God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.
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1 Peter 1:22
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22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for (A)a sincere brotherly love, (B)love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
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Matthew 7:24-25
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Build Your House on the Rock
24 (A)“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like (B)a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
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Genesis 22:18
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18 and (A)in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, (B)because you have obeyed my voice.”
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Genesis 15:7-8
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7 And he said to him, “I am the Lord who (A)brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans (B)to give you this land to possess.” 8 But he said, “O Lord God, (C)how am I to know that I shall possess it?”
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Genesis 12:7
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7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, (A)“To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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James 2:14-16
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Faith Without Works Is Dead
14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith (A)but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 (B)If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 (C)and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good[a] is that?
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- James 2:16 Or benefit
Romans 10:16
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16 But (A)they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, (B)“Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”
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Psalm 105:9-11
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1 Peter 4:17
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17 For it is time for judgment (A)to begin at the household of God; and (B)if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who (C)do not obey the gospel of God?
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Hebrews 11:33
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33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, (A)stopped the mouths of lions,
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Romans 6:17
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17 But (A)thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the (B)standard of teaching to which you were committed,
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Romans 1:5
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5 through whom (A)we have received grace and (B)apostleship (C)to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name (D)among all the nations,
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Ezekiel 36:24
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24 (A)I will take you (B)from the nations and gather you from all the countries and (C)bring you into your own land.
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Isaiah 51:2
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2 Look to Abraham your father
and to Sarah who bore you;
for (A)he was but one when I called him,
that I might bless him and multiply him.
Isaiah 41:2
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2 (A)Who stirred up one from the east
whom victory meets at every (B)step?[a]
(C)He gives up nations before him,
so that he tramples kings underfoot;
he makes them like dust with his sword,
(D)like driven stubble with his bow.
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- Isaiah 41:2 Or whom righteousness calls to follow?
Nehemiah 9:7-8
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7 You are the Lord, the God (A)who chose Abram and brought him out of (B)Ur of the Chaldeans (C)and gave him the name Abraham. 8 (D)You found his heart faithful before you, (E)and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring (F)the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. (G)And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.
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Joshua 24:3
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3 (A)Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River[a] and (B)led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. (C)I gave him Isaac.
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- Joshua 24:3 That is, the Euphrates; also verses 14, 15
Deuteronomy 9:5
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5 (A)Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm (B)the word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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Genesis 26:3
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3 (A)Sojourn in this land, and (B)I will be with you and will bless you, for (C)to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish (D)the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
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Genesis 17:8
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8 And (A)I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and (B)I will be their God.”
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Genesis 15:5
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5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and (A)number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, (B)“So shall your offspring be.”
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Genesis 13:15-17
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15 for all the land that you see I will give (A)to you and (B)to your offspring forever. 16 (C)I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted. 17 Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.”
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