Acts 7:3
God told him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives, and go to the country that I'm going to show you.’
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Genesis 13:14After separating from Lot, the Lord told Abram, “Look around you from where you're standing, to the north, south, east, and west.
Genesis 20:13Since my God made me move far away from my family home, I told her, ‘If you really love me, then wherever you go with me you must tell people: He's my brother.’”
Nehemiah 9:8You knew he would be faithful to you, and made an agreement with him to give him and his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites. You kept your promise, because you do what is right.
Luke 14:33In the same way every one of you who doesn't give up everything can't be my disciple.
Hebrews 11:8Through trusting God Abraham obeyed when God called him to go to the land God was going to give him. He left, not knowing where he was going.
Matthew Henry on Acts 7:2-17
Stephen's Address. 1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so? 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. 5… Read the whole commentary →