Hebrews 11:8

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

1 Peter 1:22

Since your souls have been purified by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto a genuine brotherly love, love one another deeply with a pure heart,

Genesis 22:18

Through your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Romans 10:16

But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

Isaiah 41:2

Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to His foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? He makes them as the dust with his sword, and as driven stubble with his bow.

1 Peter 4:17

For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God, and if it begins first with us, what shall the end be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

Hebrews 11:33

who through faith subdued kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

Romans 6:17

But thanks be to God, for you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of teaching to which you were entrusted,

Ezekiel 36:24

For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all countries and will bring you into your own land.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

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.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Genesis 26:3

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you; for I will give to you and all your descendants all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

Genesis 17:8

All the land of Canaan, where you now live as strangers, I will give to you and to your descendants for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

Genesis 15:5

He brought him outside and said, “Look up toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So will your descendants be.”

1 Peter 3:1

Likewise you wives, be submissive to your own husbands, so that if any do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

Hebrews 5:9

and being made complete, He became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey Him,

2 Corinthians 10:5

casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Romans 1:5

Through Him we have received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all nations for His name,

Genesis 11:31

Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 12:5

Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had accumulated, and the people that they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. They came to the land of Canaan.

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.’ ”

Numbers 10:30

Hobab said to him, “I will not go. But I will depart to my own land, and to my kindred.”

Matthew 2:21

And he rose, took the young Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.