Daily Bible Verse

Abraham taught his children to believe and have faith

Abraham taught his children to believe and have faith – Hebrews 11:17-20; Genesis 25:20-21; 26:1-5

Hebrews 11:17-20

¹⁷ By faith (believing specifically what you hear) Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

¹⁸ Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:

¹⁹ Accounting (reckoning) that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure (did even in a figure receive him back).

²⁰ By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

Genesis 25:20-21

²⁰ And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

²¹ And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Genesis 26:1-5

26 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

² And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:

³ Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

⁴ And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

⁵ Because that Abraham obeyed my voice (to be heard and believed), and kept my charge(to be observed), my commandments (decrees to be acknowledged) , my statutes, and my laws (instructions to be followed).