adCited from Ps. 32:1, 2
Genesis 12:1-3
The Call of Abram
1Now athe Lord said ▼▼Or had said
to Abram, “Go from your country ▼▼Or land
and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 dAnd I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 eI will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and fin you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” ▼▼Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves
Genesis 12:7
7Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, h“To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.Genesis 15:5-7
5And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and inumber the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, j“So shall your offspring be.” 6And khe believed the Lord, and lhe counted it to him as righteousness.7And he said to him, “I am the Lord who mbrought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans nto give you this land to possess.”
Genesis 17:6-8
6I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make oyou into nations, and pkings shall come from you. 7And I will qestablish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, rto be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8And sI will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and tI will be their God.”Genesis 22:17-18
17I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring uas the stars of heaven and vas the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess wthe gate of his ▼▼Or their
enemies, 18and yin your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, zbecause you have obeyed my voice.” Psalms 72:17
17 aaMay his name endure forever,his fame continue as long as the sun!
abMay people be blessed in him,
acall nations call him blessed!
Romans 4:7-8
7 ad“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,and whose sins are covered;
8blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not aecount his sin.”
Galatians 3:8
8And the Scripture, foreseeing that afGod would justify ▼▼Or count righteous; also verses 11, 24
the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, ah“In you shall all the nations be blessed.” Galatians 3:14
14so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might aicome to the Gentiles, so that ajwe might receive akthe promised Spirit ▼▼Greek receive the promise of the Spirit
through faith.
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