Nehemiah 9:8
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8 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.
Hebrews 6:18
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18 that by two [a]immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to (A)lie, we [b]might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope (B)set before us.
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- Hebrews 6:18 unchangeable
- Hebrews 6:18 M omits might
Genesis 15:18-21
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18 On the same day the Lord (A)made a covenant with Abram, saying:
(B)“To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates— 19 the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 21 the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
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Genesis 15:6
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6 And he (A)believed in the Lord, and He (B)accounted it to him for righteousness.
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Joshua 23:14
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14 “Behold, this day (A)I[a] am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that (B)not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.
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- Joshua 23:14 I am going to die.
Joshua 21:43-45
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The Promise Fulfilled
43 So the Lord gave to Israel (A)all the land of which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they (B)took possession of it and dwelt in it. 44 (C)The Lord gave them (D)rest all around, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers. And (E)not a man of all their enemies stood against them; the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand. 45 (F)Not a word failed of any good thing which the Lord had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.
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Genesis 17:7-8
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7 And I will (A)establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, (B)to be God to you and (C)your descendants after you. 8 Also (D)I give to you and your descendants after you the land (E)in[a] which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and (F)I will be their God.”
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- Genesis 17:8 Lit. of your sojournings
Genesis 12:7
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7 (A)Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, (B)“To your [a]descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an (C)altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
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- Genesis 12:7 Lit. seed
1 John 1:9
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9 If we (A)confess our sins, He is (B)faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to (C)cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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James 2:21-23
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21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works (A)when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see (B)that faith was working together with his works, and by (C)works faith was made [a]perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, (D)“Abraham believed God, and it was [b]accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called (E)the friend of God.
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- James 2:22 complete
- James 2:23 credited
Hebrews 11:17
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The Faith of the Patriarchs(A)
17 By faith Abraham, (B)when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
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Titus 1:2
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2 in hope of eternal life which God, who (A)cannot lie, promised before time began,
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1 Timothy 1:12-13
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Glory to God for His Grace(A)
12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has (B)enabled me, (C)because He counted me faithful, (D)putting me into the ministry, 13 although (E)I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an [a]insolent man; but I obtained mercy because (F)I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
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- 1 Timothy 1:13 violently arrogant
Acts 13:22
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22 And (A)when He had removed him, (B)He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, (C)‘I have found David the son of Jesse, (D)a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’
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Luke 1:72-73
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72 (A)To perform the mercy promised to our fathers
And to remember His holy covenant,
73 (B)The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:
Psalm 105:43-44
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43 He brought out His people with joy,
His chosen ones with [a]gladness.
44 (A)He gave them the lands of the [b]Gentiles,
And they inherited the labor of the nations,
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- Psalm 105:43 a joyful shout
- Psalm 105:44 nations
Psalm 105:8-9
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8 He (A)remembers His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,
9 (B)The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac,
Psalm 92:14-15
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14 They shall still bear fruit in old age;
They shall be [a]fresh and [b]flourishing,
15 To declare that the Lord is upright;
(A)He is my rock, and (B)there is no unrighteousness in Him.
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- Psalm 92:14 Full of oil or sap, lit. fat
- Psalm 92:14 green
Joshua 11:23
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23 So Joshua took the whole land, (A)according to all that the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel (B)according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land (C)rested from war.
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Joshua 11:3
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3 to the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the (A)Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, (B)and the Hivite below (C)Hermon (D)in the land of Mizpah.
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Joshua 9:1
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The Treaty with the Gibeonites
9 And it came to pass when (A)all the kings who were on this side of the Jordan, in the hills and in the lowland and in all the coasts of (B)the Great Sea toward Lebanon—(C)the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite—heard about it,
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Deuteronomy 26:3
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3 And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, ‘I declare today to the Lord [a]your God that I have come to the country which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us.’
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- Deuteronomy 26:3 LXX my
Deuteronomy 9:5
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5 (A)It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may [a]fulfill the (B)word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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- Deuteronomy 9:5 perform
Deuteronomy 7:8-9
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8 but (A)because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep (B)the oath which He swore to your fathers, (C)the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of [a]bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9 “Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is God, (D)the faithful God (E)who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments;
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- Deuteronomy 7:8 slavery
Deuteronomy 7:1
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A Chosen People(A)
7 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to (B)possess, and has cast out many (C)nations before you, (D)the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,
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