Genesis 12:2-3

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. 3 bI will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and cin you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Or by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves


Isaiah 41:8

8 But you, Israel, emy servant,
Jacob, fwhom I have chosen,
the offspring of Abraham, gmy friend;

Isaiah 51:2-3

2Look to Abraham your father
and to Sarah who bore you;
for hhe was but one when I called him,
that I might bless him and multiply him.
3For the Lord icomforts Zion;
he comforts all her waste places
and makes her wilderness like jEden,
her desert like kthe garden of the Lord;
ljoy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and the voice of song.

Romans 4:3-17

3For what does the Scripture say? mAbraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” 4Now nto the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5And to the one who does not work but obelieves in
Or  but trusts; compare verse 24
him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
6just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:

7 qBlessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
8blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not rcount his sin.”
9Is this blessing then only for sthe circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? tFor we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. 10How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. 11 uHe received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was vto make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, 12and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

The Promise Realized Through Faith

13For wthe promise to Abraham and his offspring xthat he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14 yFor if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 15For zthe law brings wrath, but aawhere there is no law abthere is no transgression.

16That is why it depends on faith, acin order that the promise may rest on grace and adbe guaranteed to all his offspringnot only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, aewho is the father of us all, 17as it is written, af“I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, agwho gives life to the dead and calls into existence ahthe things that do not exist.
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