Hebrews 11:2

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.

unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

Yahweh said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries to me from the ground.

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”

that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers,

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias!” He said, “Behold, it’s me, Lord.”

The 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.”

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

To them it was revealed, that they served not to themselves, but to you, in these things, which now have been announced to you through those who preached the Good News to you by the Holy Spirit sent out from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”

“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

We are courageous, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your offspring after you for an everlasting possession.’

Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!

She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you. They have believed that you sent me.

But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise, and go toward the south to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a desert.”

But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

He is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside.

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, ‘Send to Joppa, and get Simon, who is called Peter,

We bring you good news of the promise made to the fathers,

But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came to Iconium.

When they had preached the Good News to that city, and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,

The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.

They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed.

He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

One Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well reported of by all the Jews who lived in Damascus,

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can’t be hidden.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

These all, having had testimony given to them through their faith, didn’t receive the promise,

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.