Genesis 12:2

Revised Standard Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your descendants also can be counted.

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 18:18

seeing that Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by him?

Genesis 18:19

No, for I have chosen him, that he may charge his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice; so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”

Genesis 19:29

So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

Genesis 24:1

Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

Genesis 24:35

The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great; he has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and asses.

Genesis 25:11

After the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac dwelt at Beer-lahai-roi.

Genesis 26:3

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

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves:

Genesis 27:29

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be every one who curses you, and blessed be every one who blesses you!”

Genesis 28:14

and your descendants 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 by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves.

Genesis 35:11

And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.

Genesis 46:3

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

2 Samuel 7:9

and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.

1 Kings 1:47

Moreover the king's servants came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘Your God make the name of Solomon more famous than yours, and make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

Job 35:8

Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man.

Psalm 107:38

By his blessing they multiply greatly; and he does not let their cattle decrease.

Exodus 1:7

But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them.

Exodus 32:10

now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; but of you I will make a great nation.”

Isaiah 51:2

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

Ezekiel 34:26

And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.

Micah 7:20

Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

Zechariah 8:13

And as you have been a byword of cursing among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you and you shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong.”

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

Numbers 22:12

God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

Numbers 23:20

Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.

Romans 4:11

He received circumcision as a sign or seal of the righteousness which he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised and who thus have righteousness reckoned to them,

Galatians 3:14

that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3:7

So you see that it is men of faith who are the sons of Abraham.

Deuteronomy 26:5

“And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.