Genesis 26:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.””
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“because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
King James Version · Public Domain“because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“because that Abraham hath hearkened to My voice, and keepeth My charge, My commands, My statutes, and My laws.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 26:5 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 12:4So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
- Genesis 17:23On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
- Genesis 18:19For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
- Genesis 22:16saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
- Genesis 22:18And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
- Psalms 112:1Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
- Psalms 128:1Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
- Matthew 5:19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
- Matthew 7:24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
- Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
- Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
- James 2:21Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
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