and said to him, (A)‘Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.’

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Promises to Abram(A)

12 Now the (B)Lord had said to Abram:

“Get (C)out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.

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Faithful Abraham(A)

By faith (B)Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

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(A)Then I took your father Abraham from the other side of [a]the River, led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his [b]descendants and (B)gave him Isaac.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:3 The Euphrates
  2. Joshua 24:3 Lit. seed

Then He said to him, “I am the Lord, who (A)brought you out of (B)Ur of the Chaldeans, (C)to give you this land to inherit it.”

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17 Therefore

(A)“Come out from among them
And be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.”

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33 So likewise, whoever of you (A)does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.

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37 (A)He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

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You found his heart (A)faithful before You,
And made a (B)covenant with him
To give the land of the Canaanites,
The Hittites, the Amorites,
The Perizzites, the Jebusites,
And the Girgashites—
To give it to his descendants.
You (C)have performed Your words,
For You are righteous.

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14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot (A)had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—(B)northward, southward, eastward, and westward; 15 for all the land which you see (C)I give to you and (D)your [a]descendants forever. 16 And (E)I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered. 17 Arise, walk in the land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 13:15 Lit. seed

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