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Genesis 26:5

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

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ASV

because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

KJV

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

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10 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
עֵ֕קֶב'E.kevconsequenceH6118 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-thatH834 →
שָׁמַ֥עsha.Ma'he listenedH8085 →
אַבְרָהָ֖ם'av.ra.HamAbrahamH85 →
בְּקֹלִ֑יbe.ko.Lito voice myH6963 →
וַיִּשְׁמֹר֙vai.yish.Morand he keptH8104 →
מִשְׁמַרְתִּ֔יmish.mar.Tiduty myH4931 →
מִצְוֹתַ֖יmitz.vo.Taicommandments myH4687 →
חֻקּוֹתַ֥יchu.ko.Taistatutes myH2708 →
וְתוֹרֹתָֽי׃ve.to.ro.Taiand laws myH8451 →

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Matthew 7:24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.Genesis 22:18And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”Genesis 22:16saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,Psalms 112:1–2Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.James 2:21Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?Hebrews 11:8By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.Genesis 22:12“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”Psalms 128:1–6Blessed are all who fear the LORD, who walk in His ways!Galatians 5:6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. All that matters is faith, expressed through love.Zechariah 3:7“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, then you will govern My house and will also have charge of My courts; and I will give you a place among these who are standing here.1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.Genesis 12:4So Abram departed, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.Genesis 18:19For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”Genesis 17:23On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.Matthew 5:19So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.Psalms 19:8The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.Numbers 9:23They camped at the LORD’s command, and they set out at the LORD’s command; they carried out the LORD’s charge according to His command through Moses.Leviticus 26:42then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.

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