Hebrews 11:8

Tree of Life Version

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he was to receive as an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going.

Cross References

Genesis 11:31

Terah took Abram his son and Lot, Haran’s son, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and he took them out of Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 12:5

Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the people that they acquired in Haran, and they left to go to the land of Canaan, and they entered the land of Canaan.

Genesis 12:7

Then Adonai appeared to Abram, and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” So there he built an altar to Adonai, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 15:5

He took him outside and said, “Look up now, at the sky, and count the stars—if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “So shall your seed be.”

Genesis 17:8

I will give to you and to your seed after you the land where you are an outsider —the whole land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

Genesis 20:13

So when God made me wander away from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your loyalty that you must show me: in every place we go, say of me, ‘He is my brother.’”

Genesis 22:18

In your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed—because you obeyed My voice.”

Genesis 26:3

Live as an outsider in this land and I will be with you and bless you—for to you and to your seed I give all these lands—and I will confirm my pledge that I swore to Abraham your father.

Isaiah 41:2

Who has stirred up one from the east? He calls justice to His feet. He gives nations over to him and subdues kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, as driven stubble with his bow.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you. For when I called him, he was but one, then I blessed him and multiplied him.”

Ezekiel 36:24

“‘For I will take you from the nations, gather you out of all the countries and bring you back to your own land.

Numbers 10:30

But he said to him, “I will not go, because I would rather go to my own country and to my own people.”

Matthew 2:21

So he got up, took the Child and His mother, and went to the land of Israel.

Romans 1:5

Through Him we have received grace and the office of emissary, to bring about obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of His name.

Romans 10:16

But not all heeded the Good News. For Isaiah says, “Adonai, who has believed our report?”

Romans 6:17

But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching under which you were placed;

2 Corinthians 10:5

and every high-minded thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Messiah—

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not by your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land. Rather, because of the wickedness of these nations, Adonai your God is driving them out from before you, and in order to keep the word Adonai swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Hebrews 11:33

By faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,

Hebrews 5:9

And once made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him—

Joshua 24:3

Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through the entire land of Canaan and multiplied his offspring. I gave him Isaac,

1 Peter 1:22

Now that you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth, leading to sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from a pure heart.

1 Peter 3:1

Likewise, wives, be submitted to your own husbands so that—even if some do not obey the message—by the wives’ conduct, without a word they may be won over

1 Peter 4:17

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the house of God. If judgment begins with us first, what will be the end for those who disobey the Good News of God?