Isaiah 65:23
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23 (A)They shall not labor in vain
(B)or bear children for calamity,[a]
for (C)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
and their descendants with them.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 65:23 Or for sudden terror
Isaiah 61:9
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9 Their offspring shall be known among the nations,
and their descendants in the midst of the peoples;
all who see them shall acknowledge them,
that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.
Jeremiah 32:38-39
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38 (A)And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 39 (B)I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, (C)for their own good and the good of their children after them.
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Psalm 115:14-15
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14 May the Lord (A)give you increase,
you and your children!
15 May (B)you be blessed by the Lord,
(C)who made heaven and earth!
Deuteronomy 28:3-12
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3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and (A)blessed shall you be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be (B)the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 5 Blessed shall be your basket and your (C)kneading bowl. 6 Blessed shall you be (D)when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
7 “The Lord (E)will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 8 The Lord (F)will command the blessing on you in your barns and (G)in all that you undertake. (H)And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 9 (I)The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. 10 And (J)all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are (K)called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be (L)afraid of you. 11 And (M)the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in (N)the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, (O)to give the rain to your land in its season and (P)to bless all the work of your hands. And (Q)you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.
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Acts 2:39
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39 For (A)the promise is for you and (B)for your children and for all (C)who are far off, everyone (D)whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
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Romans 9:7-8
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7 and not all are children of Abraham (A)because they are his offspring, but (B)“Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 8 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but (C)the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
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Isaiah 55:2
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2 (A)Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
Isaiah 49:4
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4 (A)But I said, “I have labored in vain;
I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my right is with the Lord,
and my recompense with my God.”
Zechariah 10:8-9
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Haggai 2:19
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19 (A)Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on (B)I will bless you.”
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Leviticus 26:3-10
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3 (A)“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, 4 then (B)I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 (C)Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And (D)you shall eat your bread to the full and (E)dwell in your land securely. 6 (F)I will give peace in the land, and (G)you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And (H)I will remove harmful beasts from the land, (I)and the sword shall not go through your land. 7 You shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 (J)Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 (K)I will turn to you and (L)make you fruitful and multiply you and will confirm my covenant with you. 10 You shall eat (M)old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.
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Genesis 17:7
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7 And I will (A)establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, (B)to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
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Genesis 12:2
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2 (A)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.
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1 Corinthians 15:58
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58 (A)Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in (B)the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord (C)your labor is not in vain.
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Romans 4:16
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16 That is why it depends on faith, (A)in order that the promise may rest on grace and (B)be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, (C)who is the father of us all,
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Malachi 3:10
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10 (A)Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby (B)put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open (C)the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
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Haggai 1:6
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6 (A)You have sown much, and harvested little. (B)You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who (C)earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
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Hosea 9:11-14
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11 Ephraim's (A)glory shall fly away like a bird—
(B)no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!
12 (C)Even if they bring up children,
I will bereave them till none is left.
(D)Woe to them
when (E)I depart from them!
13 Ephraim, (F)as I have seen, was like a young palm[a] planted in a meadow;
but (G)Ephraim must lead his children out to slaughter.[b]
14 Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them (H)a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
Footnotes
- Hosea 9:13 Or like Tyre
- Hosea 9:13 Hebrew to him who slaughters
Deuteronomy 28:38-42
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38 (A)You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for (B)the locust shall consume it. 39 (C)You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you (D)shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for (E)they shall go into captivity. 42 (F)The cricket[a] shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground.
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- Deuteronomy 28:42 Identity uncertain
Leviticus 26:29
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29 (A)You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
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Leviticus 26:22
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22 And (A)I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that (B)your roads shall be deserted.
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Leviticus 26:20
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20 And (A)your strength shall be spent in vain, for (B)your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
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Galatians 3:29
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29 And (A)if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, (B)heirs according to promise.
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Acts 3:25-26
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25 (A)You are the sons of the prophets and of (B)the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, (C)‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’ 26 (D)God, (E)having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, (F)to bless you (G)by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”
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