the blessing
Genesis 12:1-3
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Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
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And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
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And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 12:7-3
Genesis 15:5-7
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And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
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And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
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And he said unto him, I am the LORD that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
Genesis 17:6-8
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And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
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And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
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And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis 22:17
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Genesis 22:18
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
Psalm 72:17
His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Romans 4:7
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Romans 4:8
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
Galatians 3:8
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
Galatians 3:14
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
wherein thou art a stranger
Genesis 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
which
Genesis 12:7
And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
Genesis 13:14-17
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And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
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For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
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And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
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Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
Genesis 15:18-21
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In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
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The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
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And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
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And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalm 105:6-12
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O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
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He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
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He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
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Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
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And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
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Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
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When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
Hebrews 11:9-13
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By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
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For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
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Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
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Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
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These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.