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 22:16and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
• Gen 22:1–12After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”
• Jas 2:21–24Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
• 1 Pet 1:6–7Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,
• Jas 5:11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
• Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• Prov 17:3The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.
• 1 Pet 4:12Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.
• Job 2:3–6Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
• 2 Chr 32:31However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
• Zech 13:9I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’”
• Job 1:11–12But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”
• Dan 11:35Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
• Heb 7:6but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.
• Mal 3:2–3“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderer’s soap;
• Deut 8:2You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
• 2 Cor 8:12For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don’t have.
• John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• Jas 1:2–4Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

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