Genesis 12:2

New American Bible - revised edition

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth; if anyone could count the dust of the earth, your descendants too might be counted.

Genesis 15:5

He took him outside and said: Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so, he added, will your descendants be.

Genesis 17:20

Now as for Ishmael, I will heed you: I hereby bless him. I will make him fertile and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve chieftains, and I will make of him a great nation.

Genesis 18:18

now that he is to become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth are to find blessing in him?

Genesis 18:19

Indeed, I have singled him out that he may direct his children and his household in the future to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord may put into effect for Abraham the promises he made about him.

Genesis 19:29

When God destroyed the cities of the Plain, he remembered Abraham and sent Lot away from the upheaval that occurred when God overthrew the cities where Lot had been living. Moabites and Ammonites.

Genesis 24:1

Abraham was old, having seen many days, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.

Genesis 24:35

“The Lord has blessed my master so abundantly that he has become wealthy; he has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 25:11

After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi. Descendants of Ishmael.

Genesis 26:3

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

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and in your descendants all the nations of the earth will find blessing—

Genesis 27:29

May peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you; Be master of your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.”

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and through them you will spread to the west and the east, to the north and the south. In you and your descendants all the families of the earth will find blessing.

Genesis 35:11

Then God said to him: I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will stem from you, and kings will issue from your loins.

Genesis 46:3

Then he said: I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation.

2 Samuel 7:9

I was with you wherever you went, and I cut down all your enemies before you. And I will make your name like that of the greatest on earth.

1 Kings 1:47

and moreover the king’s servants have come to pay their respects to our lord, King David, saying, ‘May your God make Solomon’s name more famous than your name, his throne greater than your throne!’ And the king in his bed did homage.

Job 35:8

Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself, and your justice, only a fellow human being.

Psalm 107:38

God blessed them, and they increased greatly, and their livestock did not decrease.

Exodus 1:7

But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific. They multiplied and became so very numerous that the land was filled with them. The Oppression.

Exodus 32:10

Let me alone, then, that my anger may burn against them to consume them. Then I will make of you a great nation.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth; Though he was but one when I called him, I blessed him and made him many.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will settle them around my hill and send rain in its season, the blessing of abundant rain.

Micah 7:20

You will show faithfulness to Jacob, and loyalty to Abraham, As you have sworn to our ancestors from days of old.

Zechariah 8:13

Just as you became a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you that you may be a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong.

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with pestilence and disown them. Then I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.

Numbers 22:12

But God said to Balaam: Do not go with them and do not curse this people, for they are blessed.

Numbers 23:20

I was summoned to bless; I will bless; I cannot revoke it!

Romans 4:11

And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal on the righteousness received through faith while he was uncircumcised. Thus he was to be the father of all the uncircumcised who believe, so that to them [also] righteousness might be credited,

Galatians 3:14

that the blessing of Abraham might be extended to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. The Law Did Not Nullify the Promise.

Galatians 3:7

Realize then that it is those who have faith who are children of Abraham.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you shall declare in the presence of the Lord, your God, “My father was a refugee Aramean who went down to Egypt with a small household and lived there as a resident alien. But there he became a nation great, strong and numerous.