Bible Cross References
God
Genesis 12:1
The LORD said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you.
Genesis 12:9
Then he moved on from place to place, going toward the southern part of Canaan.
Genesis 12:11-20
11
When he was about to cross the border into Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "You are a beautiful woman.
12
When the Egyptians see you, they will assume that you are my wife, and so they will kill me and let you live.
13
Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well."
14
When he crossed the border into Egypt, the Egyptians did see that his wife was beautiful.
15
Some of the court officials saw her and told the king how beautiful she was; so she was taken to his palace.
16
Because of her the king treated Abram well and gave him flocks of sheep and goats, cattle, donkeys, slaves, and camels.
17
But because the king had taken Sarai, the LORD sent terrible diseases on him and on the people of his palace.
18
Then the king sent for Abram and asked him, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
19
Why did you say that she was your sister, and let me take her as my wife? Here is your wife; take her and get out!"
20
The king gave orders to his men, so they took Abram and put him out of the country, together with his wife and everything he owned.
Acts 7:3-5
3
and said to him, 'Leave your family and country and go to the land that I will show you.'
4
And so he left his country and went to live in Haran. After Abraham's father died, God made him move to this land where you now live.
5
God did not then give Abraham any part of it as his own, not even a square foot of ground, but God promised to give it to him, and that it would belong to him and to his descendants. At the time God made this promise, Abraham had no children.
Hebrews 11:8
It was faith that made Abraham obey when God called him to go out to a country which God had promised to give him. He left his own country without knowing where he was going.
This
1 Samuel 23:21
Saul answered, "May the LORD bless you for being so kind to me!
Psalm 64:5
They encourage each other in their evil plots; they talk about where they will place their traps. "No one can see them," they say.
Acts 5:9
So Peter said to her, "Why did you and your husband decide to put the Lord's Spirit to the test? The men who buried your husband are at the door right now, and they will carry you out too!"
say
Genesis 12:13
Tell them that you are my sister; then because of you they will let me live and treat me well."