Genesis 17:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, I am Almighty God; walk before me and be perfect.

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  • Deut 18:13 : 13 You shall be perfect with the LORD your God.
  • Gen 6:9 : 9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
  • Job 1:1 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and avoided evil.
  • Isa 38:3 : 3 And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beg You, how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
  • Matt 5:48 : 48 Therefore be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
  • 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 I beg You, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  • Ps 116:9 : 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
  • Phil 4:13 : 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
  • 1 Kgs 3:6 : 6 And Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great mercy, as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
  • Gen 28:3 : 3 And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a multitude of people;
  • Gen 35:11 : 11 And God said to him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be from you, and kings shall come from your body;
  • 1 Kgs 8:25 : 25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; if only your children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as you have walked before me.
  • Job 11:7 : 7 Can you by searching find out God? Can you find out the Almighty to perfection?
  • 1 Kgs 2:4 : 4 That the Lord may continue His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
  • Exod 6:3 : 3 And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH I was not known to them.
  • Heb 7:25 : 25 Therefore he is able also to save completely those who come to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
  • Matt 19:26 : 26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
  • Mic 6:8 : 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  • Acts 23:1 : 1 Paul, earnestly looking at the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
  • Acts 24:16 : 16 And here I exercise myself, to have always a conscience without offense toward God, and toward men.
  • Eph 3:20 : 20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
  • Jer 32:17 : 17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm, and there is nothing too hard for you:
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say to Him, What are you doing?
  • Num 11:23 : 23 And the LORD said to Moses, Is the LORD's hand shortened? You shall see now whether My word shall come to pass to you or not.
  • Deut 10:17 : 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, mighty and awesome, who does not show partiality nor take a bribe:
  • Ps 115:3 : 3 But our God is in the heavens; He has done whatever He has pleased.
  • Gen 48:15 : 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long unto this day,
  • Gen 5:22 : 22 And Enoch walked with God after he had Methuselah three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
  • Gen 5:24 : 24 And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
  • Gen 12:1 : 1 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get yourself out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your descendants will I give this land: and there he built an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.
  • Gen 16:16 : 16 And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
  • Gen 18:1 : 1 And the LORD appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
  • Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

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    1After these things, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am your shield, and your exceedingly great reward.

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    24And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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    1And the LORD appeared to him in the plains of Mamre, and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

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    7And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your descendants will I give this land: and there he built an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.

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    17Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.

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    1And Abraham was old and advanced in age, and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

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    24And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham your father: fear not, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your descendants for my servant Abraham's sake.

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    3And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH I was not known to them.

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    19And he blessed him, and said, "Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth;

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    27And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he stood before the LORD.

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    9And God said to Abraham, You shall keep my covenant therefore, you and your descendants after you in their generations.

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    17Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?

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    17And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing;

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

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  • Gen 22:11
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    13And behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: the land where you lie, I will give to you and to your descendants;

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    4To the place of the altar, which he had made there at first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

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    19And God said, Sarah your wife shall indeed bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.

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    15And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham out of heaven the second time,

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    2And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land which I shall tell you of: