Genesis 32:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’””
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“But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and Thou--Thou hast said, I certainly do good with thee, and have set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 32:12 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
- Genesis 28:13And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
- Genesis 32:6When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”
- Genesis 46:3“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
- Exodus 32:13Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”
- Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- 1 Samuel 15:29Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
- Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- 2 Timothy 2:13if we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.
- Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- Hebrews 6:17So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.
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