xSee Rom. 9:4, 5
aaCited from Gen. 22:17
Genesis 12:2
2 aAnd 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.Genesis 12:13
13Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.”Genesis 13:14-17
14The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, bnorthward and southward and eastward and westward, 15for all the land that you see I will give cto you and dto your offspring forever. 16 eI will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted. 17Arise, walk through the length and the breadth of the land, for I will give it to you.”Genesis 17:4-8
4“Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be fthe father of a multitude of nations. 5No longer shall your name be called Abram, ▼▼ Abram means exalted father
but hyour name shall be Abraham, ▼▼ Abraham means father of a multitude
jfor I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make kyou into nations, and lkings shall come from you. 7And I will mestablish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, nto be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8And oI 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 pI will be their God.” Genesis 22:17-18
17I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring qas the stars of heaven and ras the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess sthe gate of his ▼▼Or their
enemies, 18and uin your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, vbecause you have obeyed my voice.” Acts 3:25
25 wYou are the sons of the prophets and of xthe covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, y‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’Hebrews 6:13-15
The Certainty of God’s Promise
13For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, zhe swore by himself, 14saying, aa“Surely I will bless you and multiply you.” 15And thus Abraham, ▼▼Greek he
achaving patiently waited, obtained the promise. Hebrews 11:13
13These all died in faith, adnot having received the things promised, but aehaving seen them and greeted them from afar, and afhaving acknowledged that they were agstrangers and exiles on the earth.Hebrews 11:17
17By faith ahAbraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,
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