Hebrews 11:8

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Summary

By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

Abraham

Acts 7:2

Which

Obeyed

General references

Bible References

Abraham

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot, son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Jehovah said to Abram: Leave your country, your people, and your father's household, and go to the land I will show you.

I took Abraham, your ancestor, from the land across the Euphrates and led him through the whole land of Canaan. I gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,

You are Jehovah, the true God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;

Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.

Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was only one. I blessed him and made him many.

He said: Men, brothers and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.

Which

Jehovah appeared to Abram and said: I will give this land to your offspring (seed). He built an altar there to Jehovah, who had appeared to him.

All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring (descendants) from generation to generation.

Then God said to him: I AM JEHOVAH, who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess.

The whole land of Canaan, where you are now a guest (alien) (foreigner) (stranger), I will give a long lasting possession to you and your descendants after you. I will be their God.

You will live there as a foreigner. I will be with you and bless you. I will keep my promise to your father Abraham by giving this land to you and your descendants.

It is not because you have been living right or because you are so honest that you enter to take possession of their land. It is because these people are so wicked that Jehovah your God is forcing them out of your way. It is also because Jehovah wants to confirm the promise he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

He made this covenant with Abraham and gave his oath to Isaac.

I will take you from the nations and gather you from every country. I will bring you back to your own land.

Obeyed

who through faith subdued kingdoms, affected righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

Being made perfect, he became the source (cause) (channel) (conduit) (pathway) (facilitator) of eternal salvation to all who obey him. (Psalm 3:8)

All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants. This is because you obeyed my command.'

He brought him outside and said: Look toward heaven and count the stars. Are you able to count them? He continued: So shall your descendants be.

Everyone who hears my words, and does them is like a wise man that builds his house on a rock.

Through whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, respecting his name.

But thanks to God, that you were the servants of sin yet you became obedient from the heart to the teachings delivered to you.

But they have not all obeyed the good news. For Isaiah says: Jehovah, who has believed our message? (Isaiah 53:1)

We cast down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God. We bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith but he does not have works? Can that faith save him?

You have purified your hearts by obeying the truth. You have genuine affection for the brothers and sisters. So always love one another intensely (extremely) (deeply) from the heart.

In like manner, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. Even if your husband does not obey God's word, he may be won without a word by observing the way you live.

For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. If it begins with us first what will it be like in the end for those who do not obey the good news of God?

General references

Noah did everything exactly as God commanded him.

Early the next morning Abraham saddled his donkey. He took two of his servants and his son Isaac with him. He had cut the wood for the burnt offering. Then he set out for the place that God had told him about.

This is because Abraham did everything I told him to do.

Hobab answered: No, I am going back to my native land.

Joseph took the child and his mother to Israel.

They found things as he described them and they made things ready for the Passover.