because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
Parallel translations
- WEB because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
- KJV Because that Abraham obeyed 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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Quick answer
The promises are renewed because Abraham obeyed God's voice and kept his commands.
Overview
God highlights Abraham's faithful obedience as the context in which the covenant blessings flow to Isaac. While the promise rests on grace, Abraham's obedient faith is honored and held up as a pattern. The verse links genuine faith with a life of glad obedience to God's revealed will.
Cross-references & the web
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- Matt 7:24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- Gen 22:18And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
- Gen 22:16saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
- Ps 112:1–2Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
- Jas 2:21Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
- Heb 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
- Ps 128:1–6A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!
- Gal 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.
- 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
- Gen 12:4So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
- Gen 18:19For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
- Gen 17:23On 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.
- Matt 5:19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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