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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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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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 6:18 unchangeable
  2. Hebrews 6:18 M omits might

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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And he (A)believed in the Lord, and He (B)accounted it to him for righteousness.

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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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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 23:14 I am going to die.

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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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. 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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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 17:8 Lit. of your sojournings

(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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  1. Genesis 12:7 Lit. seed

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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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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Footnotes

  1. James 2:22 complete
  2. James 2:23 credited

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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in hope of eternal life which God, who (A)cannot lie, promised before time began,

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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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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 1:13 violently arrogant

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