Hebrews 11:17

When tested, Abraham by faith offered up Isaac, even though Isaac was the son through whom the promises were to come. Faith obeys God even when his command seems to threaten his own promise.

Cross-references · 19

• Gen 22:16saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
• Gen 22:1–12Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
• Jas 2:21–24Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
• 1 Pet 1:6–7In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
• Jas 5:11See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
• Rev 3:10Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• Prov 17:3A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
• 1 Pet 4:12Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.
• Job 2:3–6Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
• 2 Chr 32:31And so when ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon were sent to him to inquire about the wonder that had happened in the land, God left him alone to test him, that He might know all that was in Hezekiah’s heart.
• Zech 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
• Job 1:11–12But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
• Dan 11:35Some of the wise will fall, so that they may be refined, purified, and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.
• Heb 7:6But Melchizedek, who did not trace his descent from Levi, collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
• Mal 3:2–3But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.
• Deut 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
• 2 Cor 8:12For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
• John 3:16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
• Jas 1:2–4Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,

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