Genesis 22:18 Cross References

Genesis 22:18

18: and through your descendants, all the nations of the earth will be blessed--all because you have obeyed me."

You are the children of those prophets, and you are included in the covenant God promised to your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, 'Through your descendants all the families on earth will be blessed.'

I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you."

God gave the promise to Abraham and his child. And notice that it doesn't say the promise was to his children, as if it meant many descendants. But the promise was to his child--and that, of course, means Christ.

I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars, and I will give them all these lands. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
I will do this because Abraham listened to me and obeyed all my requirements, commands, regulations, and laws."

There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female. For you are all Christians--you are one in Christ Jesus.
And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and now all the promises God gave to him belong to you.

"For Abraham will become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.

What's more, the Scriptures looked forward to this time when God would accept the Gentiles, too, on the basis of their faith. God promised this good news to Abraham long ago when he said, "All nations will be blessed through you."
And so it is: All who put their faith in Christ share the same blessing Abraham received because of his faith.

This is what I told them: `Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Only do as I say, and all will be well!'

How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ.

May the king's name endure forever; may it continue as long as the sun shines. May all nations be blessed through him and bring him praise.

It is the Good News about his Son, Jesus, who came as a man, born into King David's royal family line.

The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son Isaac. Then he chopped wood to build a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place where God had told him to go.

What is faith? It is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see.
God gave his approval to people in days of old because of their faith.
By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God's command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen.
It was by faith that Abel brought a more acceptable offering to God than Cain did. God accepted Abel's offering to show that he was a righteous man. And although Abel is long dead, he still speaks to us because of his faith.
It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying--"suddenly he disappeared because God took him." But before he was taken up, he was approved as pleasing to God.

For if the inheritance could be received only by keeping the law, then it would not be the result of accepting God's promise. But God gave it to Abraham as a promise.

And Abraham took the knife and lifted it up to kill his son as a sacrifice to the LORD.

"Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, says: The terrible things you are doing cannot continue! I had promised that your branch of the tribe of Levi would always be my priests. But I will honor only those who honor me, and I will despise those who despise me.

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