Luke 1:55 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵⁵ 3 And demanding a writing table, he wrote, saying: John is his name. And they all wondered.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁵ As he spake to our fathers, To Abraham, and to his seed for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁵ Even as He promised to our forefathers, to Abraham and to his descendants forever. [Gen. 17:7; 18:18; 22:17; I Sam. 2:1-10; Mic. 7:20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁵ (As he spake unto our fathers) Toward Abraham and his seed for ever.

Common English Bible

⁵⁵ just as he promised to our ancestors, to Abraham and to Abraham’s descendants forever.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁵ just as he spoke to our fathers: to Abraham and to his offspring forever."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵⁵ As he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed for ever.

Luke 1:55 Cross References

Genesis 12:3

I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and IN THEE shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed:

Genesis 17:19

9 And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

Genesis 17:7

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy sad after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Genesis 22:18

8 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Genesis 26:4

And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 28:14

5 And I will be thy keeper whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee back into this land: neither will I leave thee, till I shall have accomplished all that I have said.

Luke 1:54

2 And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.

Luke 1:56

4 And immediately his mouth was opened, and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God.