Acts 7:3

God's Word

God told him, ‘Leave your land and your relatives. Go to the land that I will show you.’

Cross References

Genesis 12:1

The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your land, your relatives, and your father’s home. Go to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 15:7

Then the Lord said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land so that you will take possession of it.”

Genesis 20:13

When God had me leave my father’s home and travel around, I said to her, ‘Do me a favor: Wherever we go, say that I’m your brother.’ ”

Nehemiah 9:8

You found that his heart was faithful to you. You made a promise  to him to give the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites to his descendants. You kept your promise because you are fair.

Matthew 10:37

“The person who loves his father or mother more than me does not deserve to be my disciple. The person who loves a son or daughter more than me does not deserve to be my disciple.

Luke 14:33

In the same way, none of you can be my disciples unless you give up everything.

Acts 7:4

“Then Abraham left the country of Chaldea and lived in the city of Haran. After his father died, God made him move from there to this land where we now live.

2 Corinthians 6:17

The Lord says, “Get away from unbelievers. Separate yourselves from them. Have nothing to do with anything unclean. Then I will welcome you.”

Hebrews 11:8

Faith led Abraham to obey when God called him to go to a place that he would receive as an inheritance. Abraham left his own country without knowing where he was going.

Joshua 24:3

But I took your ancestor Abraham from the other side of the Euphrates River. I led him through all of Canaan and gave him many descendants. I also gave him Isaac.