Hebrews 11:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 21:12 : 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.
  • Rom 9:7 : 7 Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."
  • Gen 17:19 : 19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Heb 11:17
    83%

    17By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son;

  • Gen 21:12-13
    2 verses
    81%

    12God 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.

    13I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed."

  • Gen 17:18-19
    2 verses
    81%

    18Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!"

    19God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

  • Rom 9:7-10
    4 verses
    81%

    7Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

    8That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

    9For this is a word of promise, "At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son."

    10Not only so, but Rebecca also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.

  • Gen 22:16-18
    3 verses
    79%

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

    17that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

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

  • Rom 4:16-18
    3 verses
    79%

    16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

    17As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.

    18Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."

  • Gen 25:19
    78%

    19This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

  • Heb 11:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

    19concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

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

  • Gen 21:3
    77%

    3Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

  • 1 Chr 1:28
    77%

    28The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.

  • Gal 3:16
    77%

    16Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.

  • Gal 4:28
    76%

    28Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

  • Gen 18:18
    76%

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

  • Gal 3:6-9
    4 verses
    76%

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

    7Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

    8The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."

    9So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
    76%

    34Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

  • 1 Chr 16:16
    75%

    16[the covenant] which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

  • Gen 28:4
    75%

    4and 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 17:21
    75%

    21But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year."

  • Gen 15:3-5
    3 verses
    75%

    3Abram said, "Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir."

    4Behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, "This man will not be your heir, but he who will come forth out of your own body will be your heir."

    5Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."

  • Heb 11:8
    75%

    8By 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.

  • Gen 22:2
    74%

    2He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."

  • Acts 3:25
    74%

    25You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'

  • Gen 21:5
    74%

    5Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

  • Gen 17:9
    74%

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

  • Heb 11:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

    12Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

  • Gen 35:12
    74%

    12The 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."

  • Jas 2:21
    74%

    21Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

  • Josh 24:3
    74%

    3I 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.

  • Ps 105:9
    73%

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

  • Gen 28:13
    73%

    13Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.

  • Rom 4:12
    73%

    12He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.

  • Heb 7:6
    73%

    6but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.

  • Rom 9:12
    73%

    12it was said to her, "The elder will serve the younger."