Bible Cross References
think
Mark 7:21
For from the inside, from your heart, come the evil ideas which lead you to do immoral things, to rob, kill,
Luke 3:8
Do those things that will show that you have turned from your sins. And don't start saying among yourselves that Abraham is your ancestor. I tell you that God can take these rocks and make descendants for Abraham!
Luke 5:22
Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, "Why do you think such things?
Luke 7:39
When the Pharisee saw this, he said to himself, "If this man really were a prophet, he would know who this woman is who is touching him; he would know what kind of sinful life she lives!"
Luke 12:17
He began to think to himself, 'I don't have a place to keep all my crops. What can I do?
We
Ezekiel 33:24
"Mortal man," he said, "the people who are living in the ruined cities of the land of Israel are saying: 'Abraham was only one man, and he was given the whole land. There are many of us, so now the land is ours.'
Luke 16:24
So he called out, 'Father Abraham! Take pity on me, and send Lazarus to dip his finger in some water and cool off my tongue, because I am in great pain in this fire!'
John 8:33
"We are the descendants of Abraham," they answered, "and we have never been anybody's slaves. What do you mean, then, by saying, 'You will be free'?"
John 8:39
They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." "If you really were Abraham's children," Jesus replied, "you would do the same things that he did.
John 8:40
All I have ever done is to tell you the truth I heard from God, yet you are trying to kill me. Abraham did nothing like this!
John 8:53
Our father Abraham died; you do not claim to be greater than Abraham, do you? And the prophets also died. Who do you think you are?"
Acts 13:26
"My fellow Israelites, descendants of Abraham, and all Gentiles here who worship God: it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent!
Romans 4:1
What shall we say, then, of Abraham, the father of our race? What was his experience?
Romans 4:11-16
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He was circumcised later, and his circumcision was a sign to show that because of his faith God had accepted him as righteous before he had been circumcised. And so Abraham is the spiritual father of all who believe in God and are accepted as righteous by him, even though they are not circumcised.
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He is also the father of those who are circumcised, that is, of those who, in addition to being circumcised, also live the same life of faith that our father Abraham lived before he was circumcised.
13
When God promised Abraham and his descendants that the world would belong to him, he did so, not because Abraham obeyed the Law, but because he believed and was accepted as righteous by God.
14
For if what God promises is to be given to those who obey the Law, then faith means nothing and God's promise is worthless.
15
The Law brings down God's anger; but where there is no law, there is no disobeying of the law.
16
And so the promise was based on faith, in order that the promise should be guaranteed as God's free gift to all of Abraham's descendants---not just to those who obey the Law, but also to those who believe as Abraham did. For Abraham is the spiritual father of us all;
Romans 9:7
Nor are all of Abraham's descendants the children of God. God said to Abraham, "It is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I promised you."
Romans 9:8
This means that the children born in the usual way are not the children of God; instead, the children born as a result of God's promise are regarded as the true descendants.
Galatians 4:22-31
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It says that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman, the other by a free woman.
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His son by the slave woman was born in the usual way, but his son by the free woman was born as a result of God's promise.
24
These things can be understood as a figure: the two women represent two covenants. The one whose children are born in slavery is Hagar, and she represents the covenant made at Mount Sinai.
25
Hagar, who stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia, is a figure of the present city of Jerusalem, in slavery with all its people.
26
But the heavenly Jerusalem is free, and she is our mother.
27
For the scripture says, "Be happy, you childless woman! Shout and cry with joy, you who never felt the pains of childbirth! For the woman who was deserted will have more children than the woman whose husband never left her."
28
Now, you, my friends, are God's children as a result of his promise, just as Isaac was.
29
At that time the son who was born in the usual way persecuted the one who was born because of God's Spirit; and it is the same now.
30
But what does the scripture say? It says, "Send the slave woman and her son away; for the son of the slave woman will not have a part of the father's property along with the son of the free woman."
31
So then, my friends, we are not the children of a slave woman but of a free woman.
God
Matthew 8:11
I assure you that many will come from the east and the west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the feast in the Kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 8:12
But those who should be in the Kingdom will be thrown out into the darkness, where they will cry and gnash their teeth."
Luke 19:40
Jesus answered, "I tell you that if they keep quiet, the stones themselves will start shouting."
Acts 15:14
Simon has just explained how God first showed his care for the Gentiles by taking from among them a people to belong to him.
Romans 4:17
as the scripture says, "I have made you father of many nations." So the promise is good in the sight of God, in whom Abraham believed---the God who brings the dead to life and whose command brings into being what did not exist.
1 Corinthians 1:27
God purposely chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise, and he chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the powerful.
1 Corinthians 1:28
He chose what the world looks down on and despises and thinks is nothing, in order to destroy what the world thinks is important.
Galatians 3:27-29
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You were baptized into union with Christ, and now you are clothed, so to speak, with the life of Christ himself.
28
So there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between slaves and free people, between men and women; you are all one in union with Christ Jesus.
29
If you belong to Christ, then you are the descendants of Abraham and will receive what God has promised.
Ephesians 2:12
At that time you were apart from Christ. You were foreigners and did not belong to God's chosen people. You had no part in the covenants, which were based on God's promises to his people, and you lived in this world without hope and without God.
Ephesians 2:13
But now, in union with Christ Jesus you, who used to be far away, have been brought near by the blood of Christ.