Genesis 12:2

New Century Version

I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants as many as the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust on the earth, he could count your people.

Genesis 15:5

Then God led Abram outside and said, “Look at the sky. There are so many stars you cannot count them. Your descendants also will be too many to count.”

Genesis 17:20

“As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him and give him many descendants. And I will cause their numbers to grow greatly. He will be the father of twelve great leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

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 18:19

I have chosen him so he would command his children and his descendants to live the way the Lord wants them to, to live right and be fair. Then I, the Lord, will give Abraham what I promised him.”

Genesis 19:29

God destroyed the cities in the valley, but he remembered what Abraham had asked. So God saved Lot’s life, but he destroyed the city where Lot had lived.

Genesis 24:1

Abraham was now very old, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.

Genesis 24:35

The Lord has greatly blessed my master in everything, and he has become a rich man. The Lord has given him many flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, camels, and horses.

Genesis 25:11

After Abraham died, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac was now living at Beer Lahai Roi.

Genesis 26:3

Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. I will give you and your descendants all these lands, and I will keep the oath I made to Abraham your father.

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 27:29

May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. May you be master over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. May everyone who curses you be cursed, and may everyone who blesses you 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.

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Have many children and grow in number as a nation. You will be the ancestor of many nations and kings.

Genesis 46:3

Then God said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go to Egypt, because I will make your descendants a great nation there.

2 Samuel 7:9

I have been with you everywhere you have gone and have defeated your enemies for you. I will make you as famous as any of the great people on the earth.

1 Kings 1:47

All the king’s officers have come to tell King David that he has done a good thing. They are saying, ‘May your God make Solomon even more famous than you and an even greater king than you.’ ” Jonathan continued, “And King David bowed down on his bed to worship God,

Job 35:8

Your evil ways only hurt others like yourself, and the good you do only helps other human beings.

Psalm 107:38

God blessed them, and they grew in number. Their cattle did not become fewer.

Exodus 1:7

But the people of Israel had many children, and their number grew greatly. They became very strong, and the country of Egypt was filled with them.

Exodus 32:10

So now do not stop me. I am so angry with them that I am going to destroy them. Then I will make you and your descendants a great nation.”

Isaiah 51:2

Look at Abraham, your ancestor, and Sarah, who gave birth to your ancestors. Abraham had no children when I called him, but I blessed him and gave him many descendants.

Ezekiel 34:26

I will bless them and let them live around my hill. I will cause the rains to come when it is time; there will be showers to bless them.

Micah 7:20

You will be true to the people of Jacob, and you will be kind to the people of Abraham as you promised to our ancestors long ago.

Zechariah 8:13

Judah and Israel, your names have been used as curses in other nations. But I will save you, and you will become a blessing. So don’t be afraid; work hard.”

Numbers 14:12

I will give them a terrible sickness and get rid of them. But I will make you into a great nation that will be stronger than they are.”

Numbers 22:12

But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. Don’t put a curse on those people, because I have blessed them.”

Numbers 23:20

He told me to bless them, so I cannot change the blessing.

Romans 4:11

Abraham was circumcised to show that he was right with God through faith before he was circumcised. So Abraham is the father of all those who believe but are not circumcised; he is the father of all believers who are accepted as being right with God.

Galatians 3:14

Christ did this so that God’s blessing promised to Abraham might come through Jesus Christ to those who are not Jews. Jesus died so that by our believing we could receive the Spirit that God promised.

Galatians 3:7

So you should know that the true children of Abraham are those who have faith.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you shall announce before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with only a few people, but they became a great, powerful, and large nation there.