because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws
- Genesis 12:4
4So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
- Genesis 17:23
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.
- Genesis 18:19
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.”
- Genesis 22:16,18
16saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son, … 18And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
- Psalms 112:1-2
1Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments. 2His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
- Psalms 128:1-6
1A song of ascents. Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways! 2For when you eat the fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will be yours. 3Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table. 4In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD. 5May the LORD bless you from Zion, that you may see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life, 6that you may see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
- Matthew 5:19
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.
- Matthew 7:24
24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58
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.
- Galatians 5:6
6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. What matters is faith expressing itself through love.
- Hebrews 11:8
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.
- James 2:21
21Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?