James 2:23

Scripture's word that Abraham believed God and was counted righteous was fulfilled, and he was called God's friend. His later obedience confirmed the faith long before credited to him.

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• Gen 15:6He believed in Yahweh, who credited it to him for righteousness.
• Isa 41:8“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
• 2 Chr 20:7Didn’t you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the offspring of Abraham your friend forever?
• Gal 3:6Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
• Rom 4:22–24Therefore it also was “credited to him for righteousness.”
• Exod 33:11Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn’t depart from the Tent.
• Rom 4:3–6For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
• John 15:13–15Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
• Rom 11:2God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:
• Gal 3:22But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
• Gal 3:8–10The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
• Job 16:21that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!
• Rom 4:10–11How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
• Rom 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
• Luke 4:21He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
• Mark 15:27With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.
• Mark 12:10Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.
• 1 Pet 2:6Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
• 2 Tim 3:16Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
• Acts 1:16“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

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