Acts 3:25

New Century Version

You are descendants of the prophets. You have received the agreement God made with your ancestors. He said to your father Abraham, ‘Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed.’

Cross References

Genesis 12:3

I will bless those who bless you, and I will place a curse on those who harm you. And all the people on earth will be blessed through you.”

Genesis 17:19

God said, “No, Sarah your wife will have a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him to be an agreement that continues forever with all his descendants.

Genesis 18:18

Abraham’s children will certainly become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.

Genesis 20:7

Give Abraham his wife back. He is a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will not die. But if you do not give Sarah back, you and all your family will surely die.”

Genesis 22:18

Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed, because you obeyed me.’ ”

Genesis 26:4

I will give you many descendants, as hard to count as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be as many as the dust of the earth. They will spread west and east, north and south, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

1 Chronicles 16:16

He will keep the agreement he made with Abraham and the promise he made to Isaac.

1 Chronicles 16:17

He made it a law for the people of Jacob; he made it an agreement with Israel to last forever.

Nehemiah 9:8

You found him faithful to you, so you made an agreement with him to give his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites. You have kept your promise, because you do what is right.

Psalm 22:27

People everywhere will remember and will turn to the Lord. All the families of the nations will worship him

Psalm 96:7

Praise the Lord, all nations on earth; praise the Lord’s glory and power.

Luke 1:72

He said he would give mercy to our ancestors and that he would remember his holy promise.

Acts 13:26

“Brothers, sons of the family of Abraham, and others who worship God, listen! The news about this salvation has been sent to us.

Acts 2:39

This promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away. It is for everyone the Lord our God calls to himself.”

Romans 15:8

I tell you that Christ became a servant of the Jews to show that God’s promises to the Jewish ancestors are true.

Romans 4:13

Abraham and his descendants received the promise that they would get the whole world. He did not receive that promise through the law, but through being right with God by his faith.

Galatians 3:16

God made promises both to Abraham and to his descendant. God did not say, “and to your descendants.” That would mean many people. But God said, “and to your descendant.” That means only one person; that person is Christ.

Galatians 3:29

You belong to Christ, so you are Abraham’s descendants. You will inherit all of God’s blessings because of the promise God made to Abraham.

Galatians 3:8

The Scriptures, telling what would happen in the future, said that God would make the non-Jewish people right through their faith. This Good News was told to Abraham beforehand, as the Scripture says: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

Revelation 14:6

Then I saw another angel flying high in the air. He had the eternal Good News to preach to those who live on earth—to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

Revelation 5:9

And they all sang a new song to the Lamb: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were killed, and with the blood of your death you bought people for God from every tribe, language, people, and nation.

Revelation 7:9

After the vision of these things I looked, and there was a great number of people, so many that no one could count them. They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language of the earth. They were all standing before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.