Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

General references

Bible References

The covenant

Genesis 17:9
God said further to Abraham, “Now as for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
1 Chronicles 16:17
He also confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
Nehemiah 9:8
“You found his heart faithful before You,
And made a covenant with him
To give him the land of the Canaanite,
Of the Hittite and the Amorite,
Of the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite—
To give it to his descendants.
And You have fulfilled Your promise,
For You are righteous.
Luke 1:72
To show mercy toward our fathers,
And to remember His holy covenant,
Romans 9:4
who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises,
Romans 15:8
For I say that Christ has become a servant to the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God to confirm the promises given to the fathers,
Galatians 3:29
And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise.

And in

Genesis 12:3
And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
Genesis 18:18
since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?
Genesis 22:18
In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Romans 4:13
For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Galatians 3:8
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “All the nations will be blessed in you.

General references

Micah 7:20
You will give truth to Jacob
And unchanging love to Abraham,
Which You swore to our forefathers
From the days of old.
Galatians 4:28
And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.