Genesis 18:19

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

Cross-references · 28

• 1 Tim 3:4–5one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
• Deut 6:6–7These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;
• Deut 4:9–10Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;
• Eph 6:4You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them 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, which is in Christ Jesus.
• Prov 6:20–22My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.
• Deut 32:46He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
• 2 Tim 2:19However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
• 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• Deut 11:19–21You shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise 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 34:15Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry.
• 1 Tim 3:12Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
• Ps 11:4Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
• Ps 78:2–9I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
• Josh 24:15If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
• Job 1:5It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.
• John 10:14I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own;
• Isa 38:19The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do today. The father shall make known your truth to the children.
• 1 Sam 2:30–31“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.
• 2 Tim 1:5having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
• Ps 1:6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
• 2 Sam 7:20What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.
• Acts 27:31Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, “Unless these stay in the ship, you can’t be saved.”
• John 21:17He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
• Amos 3:2“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
• Acts 27:23–24For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,
• Gen 17:23–27Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.

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