Genesis 26:5

Good News Translation (US Version)

I will bless you, because Abraham obeyed me and kept all my laws and commands.”

Cross References

Genesis 22:18

All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants—all because you obeyed my command.”

Genesis 22:16

“I make a vow by my own name—the Lord is speaking—that I will richly bless you. Because you did this and did not keep back your only son from me,

Matthew 7:24

“So then, anyone who hears these words of mine and obeys them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

James 2:21

How was our ancestor Abraham put right with God? It was through his actions, when he offered his son Isaac on the altar.

Hebrews 11:8

It was faith that made Abraham obey when God called him to go out to a country which God had promised to give him. He left his own country without knowing where he was going.

Galatians 5:6

For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all; what matters is faith that works through love.

1 Corinthians 15:58

So then, my dear friends, stand firm and steady. Keep busy always in your work for the Lord, since you know that nothing you do in the Lord's service is ever useless.

Genesis 18:19

I have chosen him in order that he may command his sons and his descendants to obey me and to do what is right and just. If they do, I will do everything for him that I have promised.”

Genesis 12:4

When Abram was seventy-five years old, he started out from Haran, as the Lord had told him to do; and Lot went with him.

Genesis 17:23

On that same day Abraham obeyed God and circumcised his son Ishmael and all the other males in his household, including the slaves born in his home and those he had bought.

Matthew 5:19

So then, whoever disobeys even the least important of the commandments and teaches others to do the same, will be least in the Kingdom of heaven. On the other hand, whoever obeys the Law and teaches others to do the same, will be great in the Kingdom of heaven.

Genesis 26:6

So Isaac lived at Gerar.