Genesis 26:5

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This is because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My instructions.

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  • Gen 22:16 : 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,
  • Gen 22:18 : 18 And through your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.'
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight, but faith working through love does.
  • Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and went out to a place he was to receive as an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going.
  • Jas 2:21 : 21 Was not our father Abraham justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
  • Gen 12:4 : 4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
  • Gen 17:23 : 23 On that very day, Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and circumcised them, as God had told him.
  • Gen 18:19 : 19 For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what He has promised him.
  • Ps 112:1-2 : 1 Praise the LORD! How blessed is the man who fears the LORD and greatly delights in His commandments. 2 His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
  • Ps 128:1-6 : 1 A song of ascents: Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who walks in His ways. 2 You will eat the fruit of your labor; you will be blessed, and it will go well with you. 3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table. 4 Behold, this is how the man who fears the Lord will be blessed. 5 May the Lord bless you from Zion, and may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. 6 May you live to see your children’s children—peace be upon Israel.
  • Matt 5:19 : 19 So whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
  • Matt 7:24 : 24 Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 22:18
    78%

    18And through your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.'

  • Gen 26:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your descendants and will fulfill the oath I swore to Abraham your father.

    4I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and give them all these lands, and through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

  • Ps 105:45
    74%

    45so that they might keep His statutes and observe His laws. Praise the LORD!

  • Gen 17:9
    74%

    9Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.

  • Gen 22:16
    74%

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

  • Gen 18:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all nations of the earth will be blessed.

    19For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, so that the LORD will bring about for Abraham what He has promised him.

  • Gen 26:6
    73%

    6So Isaac settled in Gerar.

  • 1 Chr 16:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16The covenant he made with Abraham, and the oath he swore to Isaac.

    17He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.

  • Ps 105:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9The covenant He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac.

    10He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.

  • Josh 24:3
    72%

    3But 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.

  • Lev 26:3
    72%

    3If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and carry them out,

  • Heb 6:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

    14saying, 'Surely I will bless you abundantly and multiply your descendants greatly.'

  • Ps 105:42
    71%

    42For he remembered his holy promise given to Abraham his servant.

  • Exod 32:13
    71%

    13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants to whom you swore by yourself: 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and they shall inherit it forever.'

  • Gen 25:5
    71%

    5Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.

  • Deut 6:17
    71%

    17Diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, as well as His testimonies and statutes that He has commanded you.

  • Deut 27:10
    71%

    10Obey the voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.

  • Gen 28:4
    70%

    4May he give to you and your descendants with you the blessing of Abraham, that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.

  • Gen 21:12
    70%

    12But God said to Abraham, 'Do not be distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.'

  • Gen 27:8
    70%

    8Now, my son, listen to my voice and do what I command you.

  • Luke 1:73
    70%

    73the oath that He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us:

  • Gen 15:6
    70%

    6Abram believed the LORD, and He credited it to him as righteousness.

  • Gal 3:6
    70%

    6Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

  • Gen 22:1
    70%

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

  • Josh 22:2
    69%

    2He said to them, 'You have kept all that Moses, the servant of the LORD, commanded you and have obeyed my voice in everything I commanded you.'

  • Gen 35:12
    69%

    12The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and I will also give it to your descendants after you.

  • Gen 21:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23Now 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.

    24Abraham said, 'I swear it.'

  • Ps 105:6
    69%

    6Descendants of Abraham, His servant, children of Jacob, His chosen ones.

  • Exod 6:4
    69%

    4I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they lived as strangers.

  • Heb 11:18
    69%

    18even though it was said to him, 'Through Isaac your descendants will be named.'

  • Jer 11:4
    69%

    4Which I commanded your ancestors on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying: Obey my voice and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God.

  • Jer 7:23
    69%

    23But this is what I commanded them: Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Walk in all the ways I command you, so that it may go well with you.

  • Lev 26:42
    69%

    42then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

  • Rom 4:3
    69%

    3What does the Scripture say? 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.'

  • Deut 4:5
    69%

    5See, I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you may act according to them in the land you are entering to possess.