Micah 7:20 Cross References
Micah 7:20
20: You will show us your faithfulness and unfailing love as you promised with an oath to our ancestors Abraham and Jacob long ago.
Genesis 28:13
- At the top of the stairway stood the LORD, and he said, "I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I will give it to you and your descendants.
- Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will cover the land from east to west and from north to south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.
Luke 1:54
- And how he has helped his servant Israel! He has not forgotten his promise to be merciful.
- For he promised our ancestors--Abraham and his children--to be merciful to them forever."
Genesis 17:7
- "I will continue this everlasting covenant between us, generation after generation. It will continue between me and your offspring forever. And I will always be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Yes, I will give all this land of Canaan to you and to your offspring forever. And I will be their God.
Romans 11:26
- And so all Israel will be saved. Do you remember what the prophets said about this? "A Deliverer will come from Jerusalem, and he will turn Israel from all ungodliness.
- And then I will keep my covenant with them and take away their sins."
- Many of the Jews are now enemies of the Good News. But this has been to your benefit, for God has given his gifts to you Gentiles. Yet the Jews are still his chosen people because of his promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- For God's gifts and his call can never be withdrawn.
- Once, you Gentiles were rebels against God, but when the Jews refused his mercy, God was merciful to you instead.
Genesis 12:2
- I will cause you to become the father of a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and I will make you a blessing to others.
- I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you."
Genesis 26:3
- Do as I say, and stay here in this land. If you do, I will be with you and bless you. I will give all this land to you and your descendants, just as I solemnly promised Abraham, your father.
- 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.
Jeremiah 33:25
- But this is the LORD's reply: I would no more reject my people than I would change my laws of night and day, of earth and sky.
- I will never abandon the descendants of Jacob or David, my servant, or change the plan that David's descendants will rule the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Instead, I will restore them to their land and have mercy on them."
Hebrews 6:13
- For example, there was God's promise to Abraham. Since there was no one greater to swear by, God took an oath in his own name, saying:
- "I will certainly bless you richly, and I will multiply your descendants into countless millions."
- Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.
- When people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding.
- God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind.
Luke 1:72
- He has been merciful to our ancestors by remembering his sacred covenant with them,
- the covenant he gave to our ancestor Abraham.
- We have been rescued from our enemies, so we can serve God without fear,
Acts 3:25
- 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.'
- When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you people of Israel, to bless you by turning each of you back from your sinful ways."
Genesis 22:16
- "This is what the LORD says: Because you have obeyed me and have not withheld even your beloved son, I swear by my own self that
- I will bless you richly. I will multiply your descendants into countless millions, like the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. They will conquer their enemies,
- and through your descendants, all the nations of the earth will be blessed--all because you have obeyed me."
Deuteronomy 7:8
- It was simply because the LORD loves you, and because he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the LORD rescued you with such amazing power from your slavery under Pharaoh in Egypt.
Psalms 105:8
- He always stands by his covenant--the commitment he made to a thousand generations.
- This is the covenant he made with Abraham and the oath he swore to Isaac.
- He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to the people of Israel as a never-ending treaty: