Genesis 32:12

Modern English Version

You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too many to be counted.’ ”

Cross References

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you and I will indeed multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens and as the sand that is on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 32:6

The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and what is more, four hundred men are with him.”

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel had a large populace, as numerous as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’ ”

Hosea 1:10

Yet the number of the Israelites will be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, “You are not My people,” there it will be said to them, “You are the sons of the living God.”

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He spoken, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.

2 Timothy 2:13

If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

Titus 1:2

in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began,

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore from one man, who was as good as dead, sprang so many, a multitude as the stars of the sky and innumerable as the sand by the seashore.

Hebrews 6:17

So God, wanting to show more abundantly the immutability of His counsel to the heirs of promise, confirmed it by an oath.

1 Samuel 15:29

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie or repent, for He is not a man, that He should repent.”