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Genesis 26:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

because Abraham listened to me and kept my mandate, my commands, my statutes, and my instructions.’

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And all the nations of the earth will be blessed  by your offspring  because you have obeyed my command.’


and said, ‘By myself I have sworn,’  this is the Lord’s declaration: ‘Because you have done this thing and have not withheld your only son,


‘Therefore,   everyone who hears these words   of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.


Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works in offering Isaac his son on the altar?


By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed and set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going.


For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith  working through love.


Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work,  because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain.


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.’


So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.


So Abraham took his son Ishmael and those born in his household or purchased #– #every male among the members of Abraham’s household #– #and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.


Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commands and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever does and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.





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