Hebrews 11:18

of whom it was said, “In Isaac will your Seed be called,”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

In Context

17By faith Abraham has offered up Isaac, being tried, even the [one] having received the promises offered up his only begotten,

19reckoning that God is even able to raise up out of the dead, from where also in a figurative sense he received [him].

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Cross References

Genesis 17:19and God says, “Your wife Sarah is certainly bearing a son to you, and you have called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a perpetual covenant, to his seed after him.

Romans 9:7nor because they are seed of Abraham [are] all children, but, “in Isaac will a seed be called to you”;

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 11:5-32

Exemplars of Faith. ( a. d. 62.) 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh. 5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that… Read the whole commentary →

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