Hebrews 11:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

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  • Gen 12:1-4 : 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: 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing: 3 And I will bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses you: and in you shall all families of the earth be blessed. 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 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.
  • Acts 7:2-4 : 2 And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, 3 And said to him, Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and come into the land which I will show you. 4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans, and lived in Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he moved him into this land, where you now dwell.
  • Matt 7:24-25 : 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. 25 And the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,
  • Rom 10:16 : 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"
  • Jas 2:14-16 : 14 What does it profit, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?
  • Ps 105:9-9 : 9 The covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac; 10 And confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant: 11 Saying, To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
  • Isa 41:2 : 2 Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
  • Ezek 36:24 : 24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
  • Gen 11:31 : 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and lived there.
  • Rom 1:5 : 5 Through whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for His name;
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 But God be thanked that though you were servants of sin, you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.
  • Gen 13:15-17 : 15 For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your descendants forever. 16 And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also shall be numbered. 17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you.
  • Gen 15:5 : 5 And he brought him outside, and said, Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if you are able to number them: and he said to him, So shall your offspring be.
  • Gen 15:7-8 : 7 And He said to him, I am the LORD that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, Lord GOD, how shall I know that I shall inherit it?
  • Gen 17:8 : 8 And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  • Gen 22:18 : 18 And in your descendants shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because you have obeyed my voice.
  • Gen 26:3 : 3 Stay 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;
  • Deut 9:5 : 5 It is not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, that you go to possess their land: but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God drives them out from before you, and that he may perform the word which the LORD swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
  • Josh 24:3 : 3 And 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.
  • Neh 9:7-8 : 7 You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, and gave him the name Abraham; 8 You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it to his descendants. And You have fulfilled Your words, for You are righteous;
  • Heb 11:33 : 33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
  • 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
  • 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 In the same way, you wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the word, they may also be won without a word by the conduct of their wives;
  • 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 And having been made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him;

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    9By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

    10For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

    11Through faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.

  • Heb 11:17-20
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    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

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

    19concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense.

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

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    1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

    2For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

    3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

    4By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead still speaks.

    5By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death; and was not found, because God had taken him: for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

    6But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

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    1Now 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:

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

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

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    3And said to him, Get out of your country, and from your kindred, and come into the land which I will show you.

    4Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans, and lived in Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he moved him into this land, where you now dwell.

    5And He gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on; yet he promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him, when as yet he had no child.

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    9Does this blessedness then come upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? For we say that faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness.

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    11And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be credited to them also;

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    18Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, So shall your descendants be.

    19And being not weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead, being about a hundred years old, nor the deadness of Sarah's womb.

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    9And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

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    6But he whose genealogy is not counted from them received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.

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    3And he traveled on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;

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    18Then Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelled in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the LORD.

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

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    15And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.