Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you, and all the families of the earth will ask for themselves a blessing like your own.’
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Genesis 22:18All the nations of the earth will ask for themselves a blessing like theirs, because you have obeyed my command.”’
Genesis 26:29so that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.” You are now blessed of the Lord.’
Genesis 28:14Your descendants will be as countless as the dust of the earth and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south, and all the families of the earth will wish for a blessing like yours and that of your descendants.
Genesis 30:30for it was little which you had before I came, but now it has greatly increased, since the Lord has blessed you wherever I went. But now, when am I to provide for my own house as well?’
Psalms 72:17May his name be blessed forever, may his fame endure as the sun. May all nations envy his blessedness, all tribes of the earth call him happy.
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 →