Genesis 17:8-9
17:8 I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing
– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent
possession. I will be their God.”
17:9 Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
Genesis 17:2
17:2 Then I will confirm my covenant
between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”
Genesis 20:7
20:7 But now give back the man’s wife. Indeed
he is a prophet
and he will pray for you; thus you will live.
But if you don’t give her back,
know that you will surely die
along with all who belong to you.”
Matthew 3:9
3:9 and don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!
John 8:33-39
8:33 “We are descendants
of Abraham,” they replied,
“and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say,
‘You will become free’?”
8:34 Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth,
everyone who practices
sin is a slave
of sin.
8:35 The slave does not remain in the family
forever, but the son remains forever.
8:36 So if the son
sets you free, you will be really free.
8:37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants.
But you want
to kill me, because my teaching
makes no progress among you.
8:38 I am telling you the things I have seen while with the
Father;
as for you,
practice the things you have heard from the
Father!”
8:39 They answered him, “Abraham is our father!” Jesus replied, “If you are Abraham’s children, you would be doing the deeds of Abraham.
Romans 4:13-18
4:13 For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not fulfilled through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
4:14 For if they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and the promise is nullified.
4:15 For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression either.
4:16 For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants – not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
4:17 (as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed – the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.
4:18 Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, “so will your descendants be.”