Hebrews 11:19
and he reasoned that God could even raise him from the dead, and in a sense he received him back from there.
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- Rom 4:17-21 : 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. 18 Against 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.” 19 Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead(because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb. 20 He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God. 21 He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.
- Gen 22:13 : 13 Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
- Matt 9:28 : 28 When he went into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them,“Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him,“Yes, Lord.”
- Gen 22:4-5 : 4 On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance. 5 So he said to his servants,“You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you.”
- Rom 5:14 : 14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam(who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.
- Eph 3:20 : 20 Now to him who by the power that is working within us is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think,
- Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands– the representation of the true sanctuary– but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.
- Heb 11:11-12 : 11 By 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. 12 So 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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- Heb 11:17-182 verses78%
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.
18 God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”
- Heb 11:20-223 verses76%
20 By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.
21 By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped as he leaned on his staff.
22 By faith Joseph, at the end of his life, mentioned the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his burial.
- Rom 4:16-227 verses72%
16 For 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.
18 Against 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.”
19 Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead(because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
20 He did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.
21 He was fully convinced that what God promised he was also able to do.
22 So indeed it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.
- Heb 11:8-136 verses72%
8 By 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.
9 By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.
10 For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
11 By 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.
12 So 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.
13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners on the earth.
- Heb 11:2-65 verses71%
2 For by it the people of old received God’s commendation.
3 By faith we understand that the worlds were set in order at God’s command, so that the visible has its origin in the invisible.
4 By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.
5 By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.
6 Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
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6 Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,
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6 Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD credited it as righteousness to him.
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37 But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
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30 But God raised him from the dead,
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39 And these all were commended for their faith, yet they did not receive what was promised.
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6 But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise.
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21 Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
- Heb 7:8-103 verses69%
8 and in one case tithes are received by mortal men, while in the other by him who is affirmed to be alive.
9 And it could be said that Levi himself, who receives tithes, paid a tithe through Abraham.
10 For he was still in his ancestor Abraham’s loins when Melchizedek met him.
- Heb 11:26-283 verses68%
26 He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.
27 By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.
28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.
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11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.
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24 but also for our sake, to whom it will be credited, those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
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21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?
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10 Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac–
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3 For what does the scripture say?“Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
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19 Jacob and Esau This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Abraham became the father of Isaac.
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15 And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise.
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4 But see how great he must be, if Abraham the patriarch gave him a tithe of his plunder.
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9 When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.
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27 Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.
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17 For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.
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13 Now when God made his promise to Abraham, since he could swear by no one greater, he swore by himself,
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26 Now as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him,‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?