Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
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Genesis 22:18And in your offspring, all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you obeyed my voice.”
Genesis 26:29so that you may not do us any kind of harm, just as we have touched nothing of yours, and have not caused any injury to you, but with peace we released you, augmented by the blessing of the Lord.”
Genesis 28:14And your offspring will be like the dust of the earth. You will spread abroad to the West, and to the East, and to the North, and to the Meridian. And in you and in your offspring, all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis 30:30You had little before I came to you, and now you have achieved riches. And the Lord has blessed you since my arrival. It is just, therefore, that at some time I also should provide for my own house.”
Exodus 23:22But if you listen to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will afflict those who afflict you.
Psalms 72:17until I may enter into the Sanctuary of God, and understand it to its last part.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:2-4
The Call of Abram. ( b. c. 1921.) 1 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 show thee: 2 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: 3 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. We have here the call by which Abram was removed out of the land of his nativity… Read the whole commentary →