Hebrews 11:18

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

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  • Gen 21:12 : 12 But 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.'
  • Rom 9:7 : 7 Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, 'Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.'
  • Gen 17:19 : 19 Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

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  • Heb 11:17
    83%

    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his only son,

  • Gen 21:12-13
    2 verses
    81%

    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.'

    13'I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation because he is your offspring.'

  • Gen 17:18-19
    2 verses
    81%

    18And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under Your blessing!"

    19Then God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

  • Rom 9:7-10
    4 verses
    81%

    7Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, 'Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.'

    8This means it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

    9For this is the word of promise: 'At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.'

    10Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

  • Gen 22:16-18
    3 verses
    79%

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

    17I will surely bless you and will greatly multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore, and your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.

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

  • Rom 4:16-18
    3 verses
    79%

    16Therefore, the promise comes by faith, that it may be according to grace, so that it might be guaranteed to all the offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

    17As it is written: 'I have made you a father of many nations.' He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believed—the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.

    18Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, 'So shall your offspring be.'

  • Gen 25:19
    78%

    19This is the account of the family line of Isaac, the son of Abraham: Abraham fathered Isaac.

  • Heb 11:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

    19Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death as a symbol.

    20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

  • Gen 21:3
    77%

    3Abraham named his son, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

  • 1 Chr 1:28
    77%

    28The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

  • Gal 3:16
    77%

    16Now to Abraham the promises were spoken, and to his seed. It does not say, 'and to seeds,' as if referring to many, but, 'and to your seed,' meaning one, who is Christ.

  • Gal 4:28
    76%

    28Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

  • Gen 18:18
    76%

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

  • Gal 3:6-9
    4 verses
    76%

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

    7Therefore, know that those who have faith are children of Abraham.

    8The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: 'All nations will be blessed through you.'

    9So those who rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
    76%

    34Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac were Esau and Israel.

  • 1 Chr 16:16
    75%

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

  • Gen 28:4
    75%

    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 17:21
    75%

    21But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.

  • Gen 15:3-5
    3 verses
    75%

    3And Abram said, "You have given me no children, so a servant in my household will be my heir."

    4Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir."

    5He took him outside and said, "Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them." Then He added, "So will your descendants be."

  • Heb 11:8
    75%

    8By 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.

  • Gen 22:2
    74%

    2Then 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.'

  • Acts 3:25
    74%

    25You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham: 'Through your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.'

  • Gen 21:5
    74%

    5Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

  • 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.

  • Heb 11:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered Him faithful who had promised.

    12And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

  • Gen 35:12
    74%

    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.

  • Jas 2:21
    74%

    21Was not our father Abraham justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?

  • Josh 24:3
    74%

    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.

  • Ps 105:9
    73%

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

  • Gen 28:13
    73%

    13And there was the Lord standing above it, and He said, 'I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying, I will give to you and to your descendants.'

  • Rom 4:12
    73%

    12and to be the father of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

  • Heb 7:6
    73%

    6But this man, who does not trace his descent from them, collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

  • Rom 9:12
    73%

    12not by works but by him who calls—she was told, 'The older will serve the younger.'