Acts 3:25

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

You are the descendants of the prophets and of the covenant that God gave to your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

Cross References

Genesis 12:3

I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Genesis 17:19

God said, “No, but your wife Sarah shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

Genesis 18:18

seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Genesis 20:7

Now then, return the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all that are yours.”

Genesis 22:18

and by your offspring shall all the nations of the earth gain blessing for themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.”

Genesis 26:4

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and will give to your offspring all these lands; and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring,

Genesis 28:14

and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your offspring.

1 Chronicles 16:16

the covenant that he made with Abraham, his sworn promise to Isaac,

1 Chronicles 16:17

which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

Nehemiah 9:8

and you found his heart faithful before you, and made with him a covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite; and you have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.

Psalm 22:27

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord; and all the families of the nations shall worship before him.

Psalm 96:7

Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

Luke 1:72

Thus he has shown the mercy promised to our ancestors, and has remembered his holy covenant,

Acts 13:26

“My brothers, you descendants of Abraham's family, and others who fear God, to us the message of this salvation has been sent.

Acts 2:39

For the promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him.”

Romans 15:8

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of the truth of God in order that he might confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,

Romans 4:13

For the promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

Galatians 3:16

Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, “And to offsprings,” as of many; but it says, “And to your offspring,” that is, to one person, who is Christ.

Galatians 3:29

And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise.

Galatians 3:8

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, declared the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the Gentiles shall be blessed in you.”

Revelation 14:6

Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation and tribe and language and people.

Revelation 5:9

They sing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slaughtered and by your blood you ransomed for God saints from every tribe and language and people and nation;

Revelation 7:9

After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.