Genesis 17:1

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When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

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  • Deut 18:13 : 13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.
  • Gen 6:9 : 9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.
  • Job 1:1 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.
  • Isa 38:3 : 3 O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.
  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.
  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
  • Ps 116:9 : 9 I will go before the Lord in the land of the living.
  • Phil 4:13 : 13 I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.
  • 1 Kgs 3:6 : 6 And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.
  • Gen 28:3 : 3 And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.
  • Gen 35:11 : 11 And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;
  • 1 Kgs 8:25 : 25 So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel before me, if only your children give attention to their ways, walking before me as you have done.
  • Job 11:7 : 7 Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?
  • 1 Kgs 2:4 : 4 So that the Lord may give effect to what he said of me, If your children give attention to their ways, living uprightly before me with all their heart and their soul, you will never be without a man to be king in Israel.
  • Exod 6:3 : 3 I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh.
  • Heb 7:25 : 25 So that he is fully able to be the saviour of all who come to God through him, because he is ever living to make prayer to God for them.
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 If then, we have a kingdom which will never be moved, let us have grace, so that we may give God such worship as is pleasing to him with fear and respect:
  • Matt 19:26 : 26 And Jesus, looking at them, said, With men this is not possible; but with God all things are possible.
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.
  • Acts 23:1 : 1 And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day.
  • Acts 24:16 : 16 And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.
  • Eph 3:20 : 20 Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,
  • Jer 32:17 : 17 Ah Lord God! see, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm, and there is nothing you are not able to do:
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the people of the earth are as nothing: he does his pleasure in the army of heaven and among the people of the earth: and no one is able to keep back his hand, or say to him, What are you doing?
  • Num 11:23 : 23 And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.
  • Deut 10:17 : 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:
  • Ps 115:3 : 3 But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.
  • Gen 48:15 : 15 And he gave Joseph a blessing, saying, May the God to whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, gave worship, the God who has taken care of me all my life till this day,
  • Gen 5:22 : 22 And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
  • Gen 5:24 : 24 And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.
  • Gen 12:1 : 1 Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.
  • Gen 16:16 : 16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.
  • Gen 18:1 : 1 Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;
  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.

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