Hebrews 11:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed God, to goe out into a place, which hee should afterward receiue for inheritance, and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

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  • Gen 12:1-4 : 1 For the Lorde had said vnto Abram, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house vnto the land that I will shewe thee. 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and will blesse thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing. 3 I will also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. 4 So Abram departed, euen as ye Lorde spake vnto him, and Lot went with him. (And Abram was seuentie and fiue yeere olde, when he departed out of Haran)
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 And the Lord appeared vnto Abram, and said, Vnto thy seede will I giue this land; there builded he an altar vnto the Lord, which appeared vnto him.
  • Acts 7:2-4 : 2 And he sayd, Ye men, brethren and Fathers, hearken. That God of glory appeared vnto our father Abraham, while he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said vnto him, Come out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and come into the land, which I shall shewe thee. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran; after that his father was dead, God brought him from thence into this land, wherein ye now dwell,
  • Matt 7:24-25 : 24 Whosoeuer then heareth of mee these words, & doeth the same, I will liken him to a wise man, which hath builded his house on a rock: 25 And the raine fell, and the floods came, and the windes blewe, and beat vpon that house, and it fell not: for it was grounded on a rocke.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Hauing purified your soules in obeying the trueth through the spirite, to loue brotherly without faining, loue one another with a pure heart feruently,
  • Rom 10:16 : 16 But they haue not all obeyed ye Gospel: for Esaias saith, Lord, who hath beleeued our report?
  • Jas 2:14-16 : 14 What auaileth it, my brethren, though a man saith he hath faith, when he hath no workes? can that faith saue him? 15 For if a brother or a sister bee naked and destitute of daily foode, 16 And one of you say vnto them, Depart in peace: warme your selues, and fil your bellies, notwithstading ye giue them not those things which are needefull to the body, what helpeth it?
  • Ps 105:9-9 : 9 Euen that which he made with Abraham, and his othe vnto Izhak: 10 And since hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a lawe, and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant, 11 Saying, Vnto thee will I giue the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance.
  • Isa 41:2 : 2 Who raised vp iustice from the East, and called him to his foote? and gaue the nations before him, and subdued the Kings? he gaue them as dust to his sword, and as scattered stubble vnto his bowe.
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Consider Abraham your father, and Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
  • Ezek 36:24 : 24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your owne land.
  • Gen 11:31 : 31 Then Terah tooke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran, his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife: and they departed together from Vr of the Caldees, to goe into the land of Canaan, and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.
  • Rom 1:5 : 5 By whom we haue receiued grace and Apostleship (that obedience might be giuen vnto ye faith) for his Name among al ye Gentiles,
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 But God be thanked, that ye haue beene the seruants of sinne, but yee haue obeyed from the heart vnto the forme of the doctrine, wherunto ye were deliuered.
  • Gen 13:15-17 : 15 For all the land, which thou seest, will I giue vnto thee and to thy seede for euer, 16 And I will make thy seede, as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seede be numbred. 17 Arise, walke through the land, in ye length thereof, and breadth thereof: for I will giue it vnto thee.
  • Gen 15:5 : 5 Moreouer he brought him forth and said, Looke vp nowe vnto heauen, and tell ye starres, if thou be able to number them: and he said vnto him, So shall thy seede be.
  • Gen 15:7-8 : 7 Againe he saide vnto him, I am the Lord, that brought thee out of Vr of the Caldees, to giue thee this land to inherite it. 8 And he said, O Lord God, whereby shall I knowe that I shall inherite it?
  • Gen 17:8 : 8 And I will giue thee and thy seede after thee the land, wherein thou art a stranger, euen all the land of Canaan, for an euerlasting possession, and I will be their God.
  • Gen 22:18 : 18 And in thy seede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voyce.
  • Gen 26:3 : 3 Dwell in this lande, and I will be with thee, and will blesse thee: for to thee, and to thy seede I will giue all these countreys: and I will performe the othe which I sware vnto Abraham thy father.
  • Deut 9:5 : 5 For thou entrest not to inherite their lande for thy righteousnesse, or for thy vpright heart: but for the wickednesse of those nations, the Lord thy God doth cast them out before thee, and that he might performe the worde which the Lord thy God sware vnto thy fathers, Abraham, Izhak, and Iacob.
  • Josh 24:3 : 3 And I tooke your father Abraham from beyond the flood, and brought him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seede, and gaue him Izhak.
  • Neh 9:7-8 : 7 Thou art, O Lord, the God, that hast chosen Abram, and broughtest him out of Vr in Caldea, and madest his name Abraham, 8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a couenant with him, to giue vnto his seede the lande of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, and Perizzites, and Iebusites, and Girgashites, and hast performed thy wordes, because thou art iust.
  • Heb 11:33 : 33 Which through faith subdued kingdomes, wrought righteousnesse, obteined the promises, stopped the mouthes of lions,
  • 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time is come, that iudgement must beginne at the house of God. If it first beginne at vs, what shall the ende be of them which obey not the Gospel of God?
  • 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 Likewise let the wiues bee subiect to their husbandes, that euen they which obey not the worde, may without the worde be wonne by the conuersation of the wiues,
  • 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 Casting downe the imaginations, and euery high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captiuitie euery thought to the obedience of Christ,
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 And being consecrate, was made the authour of eternall saluation vnto all them that obey him:

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  • Heb 11:9-11
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    9 By faith he abode in the land of promes, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promes.

    10 For he looked for a citie hauing a foundation, whose builder and maker is God.

    11 Through faith Sara also receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a childe when she was past age, because she iudged him faithfull which had promised.

  • Heb 11:17-20
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    17 By faith Abraham offered vp Isaac, when he was tryed, and he that had receiued the promises, offered his onely begotten sonne.

    18 (To whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seede be called.)

    19 For he considered that God was able to raise him vp euen from the dead: from whence he receiued him also after a sort.

    20 By faith Isaac blessed Iacob and Esau, concerning things to come.

  • Heb 11:1-7
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    1 Nowe faith is the ground of things, which are hoped for, and the euidence of things which are not seene.

    2 For by it our elders were wel reported of.

    3 Through faith we vnderstand that the world was ordeined by the worde of God, so that the things which we see, are not made of things which did appeare.

    4 By faith Abel offered vnto God a greater sacrifice then Cain, by the which he obtained witnes that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: by the which faith also he being dead, yet speaketh.

    5 By faith was Enoch translated, that he should not see death: neither was he found: for God had translated him: for before he was translated, he was reported of, that he had pleased God.

    6 But without faith it is vnpossible to please him: for he that commeth to God, must beleeue that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seeke him.

    7 By faith Noe being warned of God of the things which were as yet not seene, mooued with reuerence, prepared the Arke to the sauing of his housholde, through the which Arke hee condemned the world, and was made heire of the righteousnes, which is by faith.

  • Heb 11:27
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    27 By faith he forsooke Egypt, and feared not the fiercenes of the king: for he endured, as he that sawe him which is inuisible.

  • Heb 11:13
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    13 All these died in faith, and receiued not the promises, but sawe them a farre off, and beleeued them, and receiued them thankefully, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

  • Gen 12:1
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    1 For the Lorde had said vnto Abram, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house vnto the land that I will shewe thee.

  • Gen 15:6-8
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    6 And Abram beleeued the Lorde, and he counted that to him for righteousnesse.

    7 Againe he saide vnto him, I am the Lord, that brought thee out of Vr of the Caldees, to giue thee this land to inherite it.

    8 And he said, O Lord God, whereby shall I knowe that I shall inherite it?

  • Gal 3:6-9
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    6 Yea rather as Abraham beleeued God, and it was imputed to him for righteousnes.

    7 Knowe ye therefore, that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.

    8 For the Scripture foreseeing, that God would iustifie the Gentiles through faith, preached before the Gospel vnto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed.

    9 So then they which be of faith, are blessed with faithfull Abraham.

  • Acts 7:3-5
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    3 And said vnto him, Come out of thy countrey, and from thy kindred, and come into the land, which I shall shewe thee.

    4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran; after that his father was dead, God brought him from thence into this land, wherein ye now dwell,

    5 And hee gaue him none inheritance in it, no, not the bredth of a foote: yet he promised that he would giue it to him for a possession, and to his seede after him, when as yet hee had no childe.

  • Rom 4:9-12
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    9 Came this blessednesse then vpon the circumcision onely, or vpon the vncircumcision also? For we say, that faith was imputed vnto Abraham for righteousnesse.

    10 Howe was it then imputed? when he was circumcised, or vncircumcised? not when he was cricumcised, but when he was vncircumcised.

    11 After, he receiued the signe of circumcision, as the seale of the righteousnesse of ye faith which he had, when he was vncircumcised, that he should be the father of all them that beleeue, not being circumcised, that righteousnesse might be imputed to them also,

    12 And the father of circumcision, not vnto them onely which are of the circumcision, but vnto them also that walke in the steppes of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had when he was vncircumcised.

  • Rom 4:16-20
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    16 Therefore it is by faith, that it might come by grace, and the promise might be sure to all the seede, not to that onely which is of the Lawe: but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of vs all,

    17 (As it is written, I haue made thee a father of many nations) euen before God whom he beleeued, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those thinges which be not, as though they were.

    18 Which Abraham aboue hope, beleeued vnder hope, that he should be the father of many nations: according to that which was spoken to him, So shall thy seede be.

    19 And he not weake in the faith, considered not his owne bodie, which was nowe dead, being almost an hundreth yeere olde, neither the deadnes of Saraes wombe.

    20 Neither did he doubt of the promise of God through vnbeliefe, but was strengthened in the faith, and gaue glorie to God,

  • Heb 11:39
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    39 And these all through faith obteined good report, and receiued not the promes,

  • Rom 4:3
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    3 For what saith the Scripture? Abraham beleeued God, and it was counted to him for righteousnesse.

  • Heb 6:12-13
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    12 That ye be not slouthfull, but followers of them, which through faith and patience, inherite the promises.

    13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, because he had no greater to sweare by, he sware by himselfe,

  • Gen 22:1
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    1 And after these things God did proue Abraham, and said vnto him, Abraham. Who answered, Here am I.

  • Gen 11:31
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    31 Then Terah tooke Abram his sonne, and Lot the sonne of Haran, his sonnes sonne, and Sarai his daughter in lawe, his sonne Abrams wife: and they departed together from Vr of the Caldees, to goe into the land of Canaan, and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.

  • Gen 22:9
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    9 And when they came to the place which God had shewed him, Abraham builded an altar there, & couched ye wood, and bound Izhak his sonne and laid him on the altar vpon the wood.

  • Heb 7:6
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    6 But he whose kindred is not couted among them, receiued tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

  • Gen 13:3
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    3 And he went on his iourney from ye South toward Beth-el, to the place where his tent had bene at ye beginning, betweene Beth-el & Haai,

  • Gen 13:18
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    18 Then Abram remoued his tent, and came and dwelled in the plaine of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and builded there an altar vnto ye Lorde.

  • Jas 2:21
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    21 Was not Abraham our father iustified through workes, when he offred Isaac his sonne vpon the altar?

  • Heb 6:15
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    15 And so after that he had taried patiently, he enioyed the promes.

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