(A)You found his heart faithful before you, (B)and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring (C)the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. (D)And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.

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18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which (A)it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope (B)set before us.

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18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, (A)“To your offspring I give[a] this land, from (B)the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”

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  1. Genesis 15:18 Or have given

And (A)he believed the Lord, and (B)he counted it to him as righteousness.

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14 “And now (A)I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that (B)not one word has failed of all the good things[a] that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.

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  1. Joshua 23:14 Or words; also twice in verse 15

43 (A)Thus the Lord gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there. 44 (B)And the Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. (C)Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for (D)the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands. 45 (E)Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.

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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. And (C)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 (D)I will be their God.”

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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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(A)If we confess our sins, he is (B)faithful and just to forgive us our sins and (C)to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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21 (A)Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that (B)faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed (C)by his works; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, (D)“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a (E)friend of God.

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17 By faith (A)Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,

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(A)in hope of eternal life, which God, (B)who never lies, (C)promised (D)before the ages began[a]

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  1. Titus 1:2 Greek before times eternal

Christ Jesus Came to Save Sinners

12 I thank him (A)who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, (B)appointing me to his service, 13 though formerly I was a blasphemer, (C)persecutor, and insolent opponent. But (D)I received mercy (E)because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

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22 And (A)when he had removed him, (B)he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, (C)‘I have found in David the son of Jesse (D)a man after my heart, (E)who will do all my will.’

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72 (A)to show the mercy promised to our fathers
    and (B)to remember his holy (C)covenant,
73 (D)the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us

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43 So he brought his people out with joy,
    his (A)chosen ones with (B)singing.
44 And he (C)gave them the lands of the nations,
    and they took possession of the fruit of the peoples' toil,

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He (A)remembers his covenant forever,
    the word that he commanded, for (B)a thousand generations,
(C)the covenant that he made with Abraham,
    his (D)sworn promise to Isaac,

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14 They still bear fruit in old age;
    they are ever full of sap and green,
15 (A)to declare that the Lord is upright;
    he is my (B)rock, and there is (C)no unrighteousness in him.

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23 So Joshua took the whole land, (A)according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. (B)And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel (C)according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.

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to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the (A)Jebusites in the hill country, and the (B)Hivites under (C)Hermon in the land of (D)Mizpah.

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The Gibeonite Deception

As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan (A)in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast (B)of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, (C)the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,

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And you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come into the land (A)that the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’

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(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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but (A)it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping (B)the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, (C)the faithful God (D)who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

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A Chosen People

“When the (A)Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, (B)the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations (C)more numerous and mightier than you,

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