Genesis 22:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."

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  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
  • Jas 2:21-22 : 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;
  • Jas 2:18 : 18 Yes, a man will say, "You have faith, and I have works." Show me your faith from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith.
  • Gen 20:11 : 11 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'
  • Gen 26:5 : 5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
  • Gen 42:18 : 18 Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.
  • Exod 20:20 : 20 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won't sin."
  • 1 Sam 12:24-25 : 24 Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he has done for you. 25 But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king."
  • Gen 22:2 : 2 He 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."
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.
  • Rev 19:5 : 5 A voice came forth from the throne, saying, "Give praise to our God, all you his servants, you who fear him, the small and the great!"
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.
  • Job 5:19 : 19 He will deliver you in six troubles; Yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"
  • Ps 1:6 : 6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked shall perish.
  • Ps 2:11 : 11 Serve Yahweh with fear, And rejoice with trembling.
  • Ps 25:12 : 12 What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
  • Ps 111:10-112:1 : 10 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever! 1 Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, Who delights greatly in his commandments.
  • Ps 147:11 : 11 Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, In those who hope in his loving kindness.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Eccl 8:12-13 : 12 Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.
  • Eccl 12:13 : 13 This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
  • Jer 19:5 : 5 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn't command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:
  • Jer 32:40 : 40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
  • Mic 6:6-8 : 6 How shall I come before Yahweh, And bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, With calves a year old? 7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, To love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
  • Matt 5:16 : 16 Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
  • Matt 10:37-38 : 37 He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn't worthy of me. 38 He who doesn't take his cross and follow after me, isn't worthy of me.
  • Matt 16:24 : 24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
  • Matt 19:29 : 29 Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
  • John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • Acts 9:31 : 31 So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
  • Rom 5:8 : 8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
  • Rom 8:32 : 32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
  • 2 Cor 8:12 : 12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
  • Heb 11:19 : 19 accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
  • Heb 12:28 : 28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

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