Genesis 18:19

God has chosen Abraham so he will lead his household in righteousness and justice.

Cross-references · 28

• 1 Tim 3:4–5An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
• Deut 6:6–7These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
• Deut 4:9–10Only be on your guard and diligently watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen, and so that they do not slip from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and grandchildren.
• Eph 6:4Fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath; instead, bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
• 2 Tim 3:15From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
• Prov 6:20–22My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
• Deut 32:46he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
• 2 Tim 2:19Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”
• 1 Chr 28:9As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
• Deut 11:19–21Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
• Prov 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
• Ps 34:15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
• 1 Tim 3:12A deacon must be the husband of but one wife, a good manager of his children and of his own household.
• Ps 11:4The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.
• Ps 78:2–9I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the beginning,
• Josh 24:15But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
• Job 1:5And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
• John 10:14I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,
• Isa 38:19The living, only the living, can thank You, as I do today; fathers will tell their children about Your faithfulness.
• 1 Sam 2:30–31Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
• 2 Tim 1:5I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.
• Ps 1:6For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
• 2 Sam 7:20What more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord GOD.
• Acts 27:31But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain with the ship, you cannot be saved.”
• John 21:17Jesus asked a third time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was deeply hurt that Jesus had asked him a third time, “Do you love Me?” “Lord, You know all things,” he replied. “You know I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.
• Amos 3:2“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”
• Acts 27:23–24For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me
• Gen 17:23–27On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.

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