Genesis 24:6

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Abraham said to him, "Make sure that you do not take my son back there.

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  • Gal 5:1 : 1 For freedom, Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
  • Heb 10:39 : 39 But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith for the preservation of the soul.
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 All these people died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar and been persuaded of them, and having embraced them, they openly declared that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
  • 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 For if, after escaping the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 Of them the true proverb has come true: "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, "A sow that is washed returns to wallowing in the mud."

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  • Gen 24:2-5
    4 verses
    85%

    2 Abraham said to his servant, the eldest in his household who managed all he owned, "Please, place your hand under my thigh.

    3 I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.

    4 Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.

    5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Should I then take your son back to the land you came from?"

  • Gen 24:7-9
    3 verses
    82%

    7 The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's household and my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' will send His angel before you so that you can find a wife for my son there.

    8 If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. But do not take my son back there."

    9 So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

  • Gen 24:37-41
    5 verses
    78%

    37 My master made me swear an oath, saying, 'You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live.

    38 Instead, you must go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'

    39 Then I said to my master, 'What if the woman does not come back with me?'

    40 He answered me, 'The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey successful, so that you can take a wife for my son from my family and my father's household.

    41 'You will be released from my oath if you go to my family and they refuse to give her to you. Then you will be free from my oath.'

  • Gen 22:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    10 Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son.

    11 But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, 'Abraham! Abraham!' And he replied, 'Here I am.'

    12 The angel said, 'Do not lay a hand on the boy. Do not harm him in any way, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.'

  • Gen 21:23-24
    2 verses
    74%

    23 Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me, my children, or my descendants. Show to me and the land where you have lived the same kindness I have shown to you.

    24 Abraham said, 'I swear it.'

  • 5 Abraham said to his servants, 'Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will come back to you.'

  • 2 The LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Stay in the land that I will show you.

  • 34 So he said, "I am Abraham’s servant.

  • 12 Then he prayed, "Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show kindness to my master Abraham."

  • 11 Abraham replied, 'I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'

  • Gen 22:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 After these events, God tested Abraham and said to him, 'Abraham!' And he replied, 'Here I am.'

    2 Then God said, 'Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.'

  • 34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I could not bear to see the misery that would come upon my father.

  • Gen 22:15-16
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    73%

    15 Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven,

    16 and said, 'By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

  • 32 For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'

  • 38 But Jacob said, 'My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow.'

  • 3 But I took your ancestor Abraham from beyond the Euphrates River, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac.

  • 30 So now, if I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us—since his life is so closely bound up with the boy's life—

  • 16 When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked with them to see them off.

  • 1 The Lord said to Abram, "Go forth from your land, your birthplace, and your father's household to the land that I will show you."

  • 24 That night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham."