Genesis 28:14

Good News Translation

They will be as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth. They will extend their territory in all directions, and through you and your descendants I will bless all the nations.

Cross References

Genesis 12:3

I will bless those who bless you, But I will curse those who curse you. And through you I will bless all the nations.”

Genesis 13:14

After Lot had left, the Lord said to Abram, “From where you are, look carefully in all directions.

Genesis 13:15

I am going to give you and your descendants all the land that you see, and it will be yours forever.

Genesis 13:16

I am going to give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all; it would be as easy to count all the specks of dust on earth!

Genesis 18:18

His descendants will become a great and mighty nation, and through him I will bless all the nations.

Genesis 22:17

I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies.

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 26:4

I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give them all this territory. All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants.

Genesis 32:12

Remember that you promised to make everything go well for me and to give me more descendants than anyone could count, as many as the grains of sand along the seashore.”

Genesis 48:16

May the angel, who has rescued me from all harm, bless them! May my name and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac live on through these boys! May they have many children, many descendants!”

Genesis 48:19

His father refused, saying, “I know, son, I know. Manasseh's descendants will also become a great people. But his younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become great nations.”

2 Chronicles 1:9

O Lord God, fulfill the promise you made to my father. You have made me king over a people who are so many that they cannot be counted,

Psalm 72:17

May the king's name never be forgotten; may his fame last as long as the sun. May all nations ask God to bless them as he has blessed the king.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Remember the solemn promise you made to them to give them as many descendants as there are stars in the sky and to give their descendants all that land you promised would be their possession forever.”

Isaiah 54:3

You will extend your boundaries on all sides; your people will get back the land that the other nations now occupy. Cities now deserted will be filled with people.

Numbers 23:10

The descendants of Israel are like the dust— There are too many of them to be counted. Let me end my days like one of God's people; Let me die in peace like the righteous.”

Matthew 8:11

I assure you that many will come from the east and the west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at the feast in the Kingdom of heaven.

Acts 3:25

The promises of God through his prophets are for you, and you share in the covenant which God made with your ancestors. As he said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendants I will bless all the people on earth.’

Galatians 3:16

Now, God made his promises to Abraham and to his descendant. The scripture does not use the plural “descendants,” meaning many people, but the singular “descendant,” meaning one person only, namely, Christ.

Galatians 3:8

The scripture predicted that God would put the Gentiles right with himself through faith. And so the scripture announced the Good News to Abraham: “Through you God will bless all people.”

Ephesians 1:3

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For in our union with Christ he has blessed us by giving us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world.

Deuteronomy 12:20

“When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised, you may eat meat whenever you want to.

Deuteronomy 13:17

Do not keep for yourselves anything that was condemned to destruction, and then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger and show you mercy. He will be merciful to you and make you a numerous people, as he promised your ancestors,

Revelation 7:4

And I was told that the number of those who were marked with God's seal on their foreheads was 144,000. They were from the twelve tribes of Israel,

Revelation 7:9

After this I looked, and there was an enormous crowd—no one could count all the people! They were from every race, tribe, nation, and language, and they stood in front of the throne and of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.