Acts 7:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

God told him, “Leave your country and your relatives and go to a land that I will show you.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:1

The LORD said to Abram: Leave your country, your family, and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 15:7

The LORD said to Abram, “I brought you here from Ur in Chaldea, and I gave you this land.”

Genesis 20:13

When God made us leave my father's home and start wandering, I told her, “If you really love me, you will tell everyone that I am your brother.”

Nehemiah 9:8

Because he was faithful, you made an agreement to give his descendants the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, and of the Jebusites and Girgashites. Now you have kept your promise, just as you always do.

Matthew 10:37

If you love your father or mother or even your sons and daughters more than me, you are not fit to be my disciples.

Luke 14:33

So then, you cannot be my disciple unless you give away everything you own.

Acts 7:4

Then Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, Abraham came and settled in this land where you now live.

2 Corinthians 6:17

The Lord also says, “Leave them and stay away! Don't touch anything that isn't clean. Then I will welcome you

Hebrews 11:8

Abraham had faith and obeyed God. He was told to go to the land that God had said would be his, and he left for a country he had never seen.

Joshua 24:3

But I brought Abraham across the River Euphrates and led him through the land of Canaan. I blessed him by giving him Isaac, the first in a line of many descendants.