Genesis 26:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

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  • Gen 22:16 : 16 And said, By myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:
  • Gen 22:18 : 18 And in your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice.
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision matters nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out to a place which he would afterward receive as an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.
  • Jas 2:21 : 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
  • Gen 12:4 : 4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
  • Gen 17:23 : 23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin that very same day, as God had said to him.
  • Gen 18:19 : 19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.
  • Ps 112:1-2 : 1 Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments. 2 His descendants shall be mighty upon the earth; the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
  • Ps 128:1-6 : 1 Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in His ways. 2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands; happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you. 3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your children like olive plants around your table. 4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD. 5 The LORD shall bless you out of Zion; and you shall see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. 6 Yes, you shall see your children's children, and peace upon Israel.
  • Matt 5:19 : 19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
  • Matt 7:24 : 24 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to 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 abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 22:18
    78%

    18And in your descendants shall all the nations of the earth 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 will bless you; for to you, and to your descendants, I will give all these countries, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father;

    4And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these countries; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

  • Ps 105:45
    74%

    45That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise the LORD.

  • Gen 17:9
    74%

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

  • Gen 22:16
    74%

    16And said, By myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:

  • Gen 18:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

    19For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.

  • Gen 26:6
    73%

    6And Isaac lived in Gerar:

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

    16Even the covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

    17And confirmed to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Ps 105:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9The covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

    10And confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

  • Josh 24:3
    72%

    3And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and gave him Isaac.

  • Lev 26:3
    72%

    3If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do them;

  • Heb 6:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

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

    14Saying, 'Surely, blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.'

  • Ps 105:42
    71%

    42For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

  • Exod 32:13
    71%

    13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.'"

  • Gen 25:5
    71%

    5And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.

  • Deut 6:17
    71%

    17You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

  • Deut 27:10
    71%

    10You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God, and do His commandments and His statutes, which I command you today.

  • Gen 28:4
    70%

    4And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you; that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.

  • Gen 21:12
    70%

    12But God said to Abraham, Do not let it be grievous in your sight because of the lad and because of your bondwoman. In all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice; for in Isaac shall your seed be called.

  • Gen 27:8
    70%

    8Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you.

  • Luke 1:73
    70%

    73The oath which He swore to our father Abraham:

  • Gen 15:6
    70%

    6And he believed in the LORD; and He counted it to him for righteousness.

  • Gal 3:6
    70%

    6Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

  • Gen 22:1
    70%

    1And it happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

  • Josh 22:2
    69%

    2And said to them, You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:

  • Gen 35:12
    69%

    12And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your descendants after you I will give the land.

  • Gen 21:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23Now therefore swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have sojourned.

    24And Abraham said, I will swear.

  • Ps 105:6
    69%

    6O seed of Abraham his servant, you children of Jacob his chosen.

  • Exod 6:4
    69%

    4And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, where they were strangers.

  • Heb 11:18
    69%

    18of whom it was said, 'In Isaac your seed shall be called,'

  • Jer 11:4
    69%

    4Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all that I command you; so shall you be my people, and I will be your God:

  • Jer 7:23
    69%

    23But this thing I commanded them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.

  • Lev 26:42
    69%

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

  • Rom 4:3
    69%

    3For what does the scripture say? Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness.

  • Deut 4:5
    69%

    5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it.