Hebrews 11:18
God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”
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- Gen 21:12 : 12 But God said to Abraham,“Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.
- Rom 9:7 : 7 nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather“through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”
- Gen 17:19 : 19 God said,“No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.
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17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.
- Gen 21:12-132 verses81%
12But God said to Abraham,“Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.
13But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”
- Gen 17:18-192 verses81%
18Abraham said to God,“O that Ishmael might live before you!”
19God said,“No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.
- Rom 9:7-104 verses81%
7nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather“through Isaac will your descendants be counted.”
8This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.
9For this is what the promise declared:“About a year from now I will return and Sarah will have a son.”
10Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac–
- Gen 22:16-183 verses79%
16and said,“‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ decrees the LORD,‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
17I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.
18Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”
- Rom 4:16-183 verses79%
16For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants– not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
17(as it is written,“I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed– the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.
18Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement,“so will your descendants be.”
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19Jacob and Esau This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Abraham became the father of Isaac.
- Heb 11:19-202 verses78%
19and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.
20By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.
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3Abraham named his son– whom Sarah bore to him– Isaac.
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28The sons of Abraham:Isaac and Ishmael.
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16Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his descendant. Scripture does not say,“and to the descendants,” referring to many, but“and to your descendant,” referring to one, who is Christ.
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28But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac.
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18After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.
- Gal 3:6-94 verses76%
6Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,
7so then, understand that those who believe are the sons of Abraham.
8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying,“All the nations will be blessed in you.”
9So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.
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34Isaac’s Descendants Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:Esau and Israel.
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16the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!
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4May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”
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21But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”
- Gen 15:3-53 verses75%
3Abram added,“Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”
4But look, the LORD’s message came to him:“This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
5The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”
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8By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.
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2God said,“Take your son– your only son, whom you love, Isaac– and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.”
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25You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham,‘And in your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’
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5(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)
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9Then God said to Abraham,“As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
- Heb 11:11-122 verses74%
11By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, he received the ability to procreate, because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.
12So in fact children were fathered by one man– and this one as good as dead– like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.
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12The land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you. To your descendants I will also give this land.”
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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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3but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and brought him into the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,
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9the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!
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13and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.
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12And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.
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6But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise.
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12it was said to her,“The older will serve the younger,”