Genesis 26:5
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because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
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Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.