because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
Parallel translations
- KJV Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
- BSB because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
- NKJV because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
- NASB because Abraham obeyed Me and fulfilled his duty to Me, and kept My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
- NLT I will do this because Abraham listened to me and obeyed all my requirements, commands, decrees, and instructions.”
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- Matt 7:24“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
- Gen 22:18All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.”
- Gen 22:16and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
- Ps 112:1–2Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.
- Jas 2:21Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
- Heb 11:8By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he went.
- Ps 128:1–6A Song of Ascents. Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
- Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
- 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
- Gen 12:4So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
- Gen 18:19For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”
- Gen 17:23Abraham 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.
- Matt 5:19Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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