Hebrews 7:6

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

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

After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

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.”

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

You shall tell Pharaoh, ‘Yahweh says, Israel is my son, my firstborn,

Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day. He saw it, and was glad.”

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

For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Then why is there the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring should come to whom the promise has been made. It was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

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

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

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.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for Yahweh’s glory filled Yahweh’s house.

These were those who went up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, and their offspring, whether they were of Israel:

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?

Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel that are of Israel.

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

and said, “ ‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

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,

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth.

You are the children of Yahweh your God. You shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

Fulfill your promise to your servant, that you may be feared.

They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.

Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn’t know what you say?

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Know therefore that those who are of faith are children of Abraham.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

Now indeed even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

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

Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

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.’

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

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.

By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,