Bible Cross References
the blessing
Genesis 12:1-3
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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.
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I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.
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I will bless those who bless you, But I will curse those who curse you. And through you I will bless all the nations."
Genesis 12:7-3
Genesis 15:5-7
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The LORD took him outside and said, "Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that."
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Abram put his trust in the LORD, and because of this the LORD was pleased with him and accepted him.
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Then the LORD said to him, "I am the LORD, who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own."
Genesis 17:6-8
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I will give you many descendants, and some of them will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations.
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"I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.
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I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever, and I will be their God."
Genesis 22:17
I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies.
Genesis 22:18
All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants---all because you obeyed my command."
Psalm 72:17
May the king's name never be forgotten; may his fame last as long as the sun. May all nations ask God to bless them as he has blessed the king.
Romans 4:7
"Happy are those whose wrongs are forgiven, whose sins are pardoned!
Romans 4:8
Happy is the person whose sins the Lord will not keep account of !"
Galatians 3:8
The scripture predicted that God would put the Gentiles right with himself through faith. And so the scripture announced the Good News to Abraham: "Through you God will bless all people."
Galatians 3:14
Christ did this in order that the blessing which God promised to Abraham might be given to the Gentiles by means of Christ Jesus, so that through faith we might receive the Spirit promised by God.
Ephesians 1:3
Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For in our union with Christ he has blessed us by giving us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world.
wherein thou art a stranger
Genesis 17:8
I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever, and I will be their God."
which
Genesis 12:7
The LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants." Then Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:14-17
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After Lot had left, the LORD said to Abram, "From where you are, look carefully in all directions.
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I am going to give you and your descendants all the land that you see, and it will be yours forever.
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I am going to give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all; it would be as easy to count all the specks of dust on earth!
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Now, go and look over the whole land, because I am going to give it all to you."
Genesis 15:18-21
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Then and there the LORD made a covenant with Abram. He said, "I promise to give your descendants all this land from the border of Egypt to the Euphrates River,
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including the lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites,
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the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
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the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, LORD, and listen to my cry; come to my aid when I weep. Like all my ancestors I am only your guest for a little while.
Psalm 105:6-12
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The LORD is our God; his commands are for all the world.
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He will keep his covenant forever, his promises for a thousand generations.
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He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and his promise to Isaac.
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The LORD made a covenant with Jacob, one that will last forever.
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"I will give you the land of Canaan," he said. "It will be your own possession."
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God's people were few in number, strangers in the land of Canaan.
Hebrews 11:9-13
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By faith he lived as a foreigner in the country that God had promised him. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who received the same promise from God.
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For Abraham was waiting for the city which God has designed and built, the city with permanent foundations.
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It was faith that made Abraham able to become a father, even though he was too old and Sarah herself could not have children. He trusted God to keep his promise.
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Though Abraham was practically dead, from this one man came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, as many as the numberless grains of sand on the seashore.
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It was in faith that all these persons died. They did not receive the things God had promised, but from a long way off they saw them and welcomed them, and admitted openly that they were foreigners and refugees on earth.