Acts 7:3

Modern English Version

and said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives, and come to the land which I will show you.’

Cross References

Genesis 12:1

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country, your family, and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 15:7

He also said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess it.”

Genesis 20:13

When God caused me to travel from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you must show me: Every place where we go, say concerning me, He is my brother.’ ”

Nehemiah 9:8

and found his heart faithful before You. And You made a covenant with him to give him the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, and the Girgashites—to give it to his seed. Indeed, You have fulfilled Your words because You are righteous.

Matthew 10:37

“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

Luke 14:33

So likewise, any of you who does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.

Acts 7:4

“Then he departed from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Harran. When his father died, He removed him from there to this land in which you now live.

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”

Hebrews 11:8

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he would later receive as an inheritance. He went out not knowing where he was going.

Joshua 24:3

I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates, brought him through all the land of Canaan, and gave him many descendants. To him I gave Isaac.