Genesis 26:5

World English Bible (2000)

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

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  • Gen 22:16 : 16 and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
  • Gen 22:18 : 18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
  • Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
  • Heb 11:8 : 8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
  • Jas 2:21 : 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
  • Gen 12:4 : 4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.
  • Gen 17:23 : 23 Abraham took Ishmael his son, 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 in the same day, as God had said to him.
  • Gen 18:19 : 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."
  • Ps 112:1-2 : 1 Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments. 2 His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.
  • Ps 128:1-6 : 1 Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways. 2 For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you. 3 Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table. 4 Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh. 5 May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life. 6 Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel. A Song of Ascents.
  • Matt 5:19 : 19 Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • Matt 7:24 : 24 "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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  • Gen 22:18
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    18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

  • Gen 26:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

    4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

  • Ps 105:45
    74%

    45 that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!

  • Gen 17:9
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    9 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

  • Gen 22:16
    74%

    16 and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

  • Gen 18:18-19
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    18 since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

    19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

  • Gen 26:6
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    6 Isaac lived in Gerar.

  • 1 Chr 16:16-17
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    16 [the covenant] which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

    17 He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Ps 105:9-10
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    72%

    9 the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

    10 and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Josh 24:3
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    3 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

  • Lev 26:3
    72%

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

  • Heb 6:13-14
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    71%

    13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,

    14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you."

  • Ps 105:42
    71%

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

  • Exod 32:13
    71%

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

  • Gen 25:5
    71%

    5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,

  • Deut 6:17
    71%

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

  • Deut 27:10
    71%

    10 You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day."

  • Gen 28:4
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    4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."

  • Gen 21:12
    70%

    12 God said to Abraham, "Don't let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For from Isaac will your seed be called.

  • Gen 27:8
    70%

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

  • Luke 1:73
    70%

    73 the oath which he spoke to Abraham, our father,

  • Gen 15:6
    70%

    6 He believed in Yahweh; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

  • Gal 3:6
    70%

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

  • Gen 22:1
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    1 It happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."

  • Josh 22:2
    69%

    2 and said to them, "You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.

  • Gen 35:12
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    12 The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."

  • Gen 21:23-24
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    69%

    23 Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

    24 Abraham said, "I will swear."

  • Ps 105:6
    69%

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

  • Exod 6:4
    69%

    4 I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

  • Heb 11:18
    69%

    18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • Jer 11:4
    69%

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

  • Jer 7:23
    69%

    23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

  • Lev 26:42
    69%

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

  • Rom 4:3
    69%

    3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness."

  • Deut 4:5
    69%

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