17:1
When
Abram
was
ninety-nine
years
old, the
LORD
appeared
to
Abram,
and said
to him,
"I
am God
Almighty;
walk
before
me, and
be
blameless.
17:2
And I
will
make my
covenant
between
me and
you, and
will
make you
exceedingly
numerous."
17:3
Then
Abram
fell on
his
face;
and God
said to
him,
17:4
"As
for me,
this is
my
covenant
with
you: You
shall be
the
ancestor
of a
multitude
of
nations.
17:5
No
longer
shall
your
name be
Abram,
but your
name
shall be
Abraham;
for I
have
made you
the
ancestor
of a
multitude
of
nations.
17:6
I will
make you
exceedingly
fruitful;
and I
will
make
nations
of you,
and
kings
shall
come
from
you.
17:7
I will
establish
my
covenant
between
me and
you, and
your
offspring
after
you
throughout
their
generations,
for an
everlasting
covenant,
to be
God to
you and
to your
offspring
after
you.
17:15
God said
to
Abraham,
"As
for
Sarah
your
wife,
you
shall
not call
her
Sarai,
but
Sarah
shall be
her
name.
17:16
I will
bless
her, and
moreover
I will
give you
a son by
her. I
will
bless
her, and
she
shall
give
rise to
nations;
kings of
peoples
shall
come
from
her."
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22:23
You who
fear the
LORD,
praise
him! All
you
offspring
of
Jacob,
glorify
him;
stand in
awe of
him, all
you
offspring
of
Israel!
22:24
For he
did not
despise
or abhor
the
affliction
of the
afflicted;
he did
not hide
his face
from me,
but
heard
when I
cried to
him.
22:25
From you
comes my
praise
in the
great
congregation;
my vows
I will
pay
before
those
who fear
him.
22:26
The poor
shall
eat and
be
satisfied;
those
who seek
him
shall
praise
the
LORD.
May your
hearts
live
forever!
22:27
All the
ends of
the
earth
shall
remember
and turn
to the
LORD;
and all
the
families
of the
nations
shall
worship
before
him.
22:28
For
dominion
belongs
to the
LORD,
and he
rules
over the
nations.
22:29
To him,
indeed,
shall
all who
sleep in
the
earth
bow
down;
before
him
shall
bow all
who go
down to
the
dust,
and I
shall
live for
him.
22:30
Posterity
will
serve
him;
future
generations
will be
told
about
the
Lord,
22:31
and
proclaim
his
deliverance
to a
people
yet
unborn,
saying
that he
has done
it.
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4:13
For the
promise
that he
would
inherit
the
world
did not
come to
Abraham
or to
his
descendants
through
the law
but
through
the
righteousness
of
faith.
4:14
If it is
the
adherents
of the
law who
are to
be the
heirs,
faith is
null and
the
promise
is void.
4:15
For the
law
brings
wrath;
but
where
there is
no law,
neither
is there
violation.
4:16
For this
reason
it
depends
on
faith,
in order
that the
promise
may rest
on grace
and be
guaranteed
to all
his
descendants,
not only
to the
adherents
of the
law but
also to
those
who
share
the
faith of
Abraham
(for he
is the
father
of all
of us,
4:17
as it is
written,
"I
have
made you
the
father
of many
nations")
--in the
presence
of the
God in
whom he
believed,
who
gives
life to
the dead
and
calls
into
existence
the
things
that do
not
exist.
4:18
Hoping
against
hope, he
believed
that he
would
become
"the
father
of many
nations,"
according
to what
was
said,
"So
numerous
shall
your
descendants
be."
4:19
He did
not
weaken
in faith
when he
considered
his own
body,
which
was
already
as good
as dead
(for he
was
about a
hundred
years
old), or
when he
considered
the
barrenness
of
Sarah's
womb.
4:20
No
distrust
made him
waver
concerning
the
promise
of God,
but he
grew
strong
in his
faith as
he gave
glory to
God,
4:21
being
fully
convinced
that God
was able
to do
what he
had
promised.
4:22
Therefore
his
faith
"was
reckoned
to him
as
righteousness."
4:23
Now the
words,
"it
was
reckoned
to
him,"
were
written
not for
his sake
alone,
4:24
but for
ours
also. It
will be
reckoned
to us
who
believe
in him
who
raised
Jesus
our Lord
from the
dead,
4:25
who was
handed
over to
death
for our
trespasses
and was
raised
for our
justification.
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8:31
Then he
began to
teach
them
that the
Son of
Man must
undergo
great
suffering,
and be
rejected
by the
elders,
the
chief
priests,
and the
scribes,
and be
killed,
and
after
three
days
rise
again.
8:32
He said
all this
quite
openly.
And
Peter
took him
aside
and
began to
rebuke
him.
8:33
But
turning
and
looking
at his
disciples,
he
rebuked
Peter
and
said,
"Get
behind
me,
Satan!
For you
are
setting
your
mind not
on
divine
things
but on
human
things."
8:34
He
called
the
crowd
with his
disciples,
and said
to them,
"If
any want
to
become
my
followers,
let them
deny
themselves
and take
up their
cross
and
follow
me.
8:35
For
those
who want
to save
their
life
will
lose it,
and
those
who lose
their
life for
my sake,
and for
the sake
of the
gospel,
will
save it.
8:36
For what
will it
profit
them to
gain the
whole
world
and
forfeit
their
life?
8:37
Indeed,
what can
they
give in
return
for
their
life?
8:38
Those
who are
ashamed
of me
and of
my words
in this
adulterous
and
sinful
generation,
of them
the Son
of Man
will
also be
ashamed
when he
comes in
the
glory of
his
Father
with the
holy
angels."
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