Leviticus 26:9

New International Version

“ ‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Genesis 17:20

And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.

Genesis 48:4

and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’

Genesis 6:18

But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you.

1 Kings 3:8

Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number.

2 Kings 13:23

But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion and showed concern for them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. To this day he has been unwilling to destroy them or banish them from his presence.

Nehemiah 2:20

I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.”

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess.

Psalm 107:38

he blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased, and he did not let their herds diminish.

Psalm 89:3

You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant,

Exodus 1:7

but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.

Exodus 2:25

So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

Exodus 6:4

I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.

Isaiah 55:3

Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.

Jeremiah 23:3

“I myself will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and will bring them back to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and increase in number.

Jeremiah 23:4

I will place shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or terrified, nor will any be missing,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:3

‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’

Ezekiel 16:62

So I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 36:9

I am concerned for you and will look on you with favor; you will be plowed and sown,

Leviticus 26:15

and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant,

Luke 1:72

to show mercy to our ancestors and to remember his holy covenant,

Deuteronomy 28:11

The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

Deuteronomy 28:4

The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

Deuteronomy 7:13

He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and olive oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

Hebrews 8:9

It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.