Genesis 12:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:9

I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have destroyed all your enemies before you. I will make a great name  for you like that of the greatest on the earth.

Galatians 3:14

The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, so that we could receive the promised Spirit through faith.

Genesis 18:18

Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.

Genesis 35:11

God also said to him, ‘I am God Almighty.  Be fruitful and multiply.  A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you,  and kings will descend from you.  ,

Genesis 46:3

God said, ‘I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed  by your offspring,

Genesis 24:35

‘The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.

Galatians 3:7

You know, then, that those who have faith, these are Abraham’s sons.

Exodus 1:7

But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous  so that the land was filled with them.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth,  so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

Genesis 15:5

He took him outside and said, ‘Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘Your offspring will be that numerous.’

Deuteronomy 26:5

You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramean.  He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as a foreigner.  There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

Exodus 32:10

Now leave me alone, so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.’

Genesis 28:14

Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth,  and you will spread out towards the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Genesis 27:29

May peoples serve you and nations bow in homage to you. Be master over your relatives; may your mother’s sons bow in homage to you. Those who curse you will be cursed, and those who bless you will be blessed.

Genesis 19:29

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when he demolished the cities where Lot had lived.

Romans 4:11

And he received the sign of circumcision  as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith  , while still uncircumcised. This was to make him the father  of all who believe  but are not circumcised, so that righteousness may be credited to them also.

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.’

1 Kings 1:47

‘The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, “May your God make the name of Solomon more well known than your name, and may he make his throne greater than your throne.”  Then the king bowed in worship on his bed.

Micah 7:20

You will show loyalty to Jacob and faithful love to Abraham, as you swore to our ancestors from days long ago.

Genesis 18:19

For I have chosen  him so that he will command his children and his house after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. This is how the Lord will fulfil to Abraham what he promised him.’

Genesis 24:1

Abraham was now old, getting on in years,  , and the Lord had blessed him in everything.

Genesis 25:11

After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.

Genesis 26:3

stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you.  For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring,  and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

Numbers 22:12

Then God said to Balaam, ‘You are not to go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.’

Numbers 23:20

I have indeed received a command to bless; since he has blessed,  I cannot change it.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will make them and the area around my hill  a blessing: I will send down showers in their season;  they will be showers of blessing.

Zechariah 8:13

As you have been a curse among the nations,  house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing.  Don’t be afraid; let your hands be strong.’

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father twelve tribal leaders,  and I will make him into a great nation.

Job 35:8

Your wickedness affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness, a son of man.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was only one; I blessed him and made him many.