 Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the...  Faith and Courage Commentary on Acts - Page 251by Derek Carlsen - 2004 - 544 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Bruce C. Birch, Larry L. Rasmussen - 1978 - 220 pages
...that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." God's response to the brokenness of shalom is to manifest healing grace through the instrument of a... | |
 | Ben Campbell Johnson - 1983 - 128 pages
...grounded in history. The source of its confidence stretches back to the promise of God to Abraham: "In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (Gen. 12:3). Knowing it aims ultimately at the salvation of the world's "families" or nations, organismic evangelism... | |
 | E. John Hamlin - 1983 - 236 pages
...canonical setting of Joshua prompts us to look for some relationship to the third promise to Abraham, that "in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (Gen. l2:3 RSV mg). The only hints of this in the Joshua story itself are in the figures of Rahab and the... | |
 | Lyman E. Reed - 1985 - 232 pages
...shall be a blessing; and I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed' (Genesis 12:1-3, NASB) . We should note in this Abrahamic covenant the last phrase, "And in you all... | |
 | 1989 - 362 pages
...said: The Holy One said: I am producing them out of you. He is the one to whom the Holy One had said: AND IN YOU <ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH > SHALL BE BLESSED. So from him he produced thirty families; and they are the following: twelve princes which he produced... | |
 | Johanna Manley - 1990 - 1144 pages
...make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. 3 4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five... | |
 | Bruce C. Birch - 1991 - 388 pages
...understand God's action of promise in relation to God's desire to bring wholeness to a broken creation ("in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed," Gen. 12:3). Thus, the movement into particularity (the beginning of Israel's story) is to be read within the frame... | |
 | Bruce C. Birch - 1991 - 388 pages
...great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing . . . and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. From this first statement of the promise unfolds a rich drama of Israel's early ancestors and their... | |
 | William Carl Placher - 1992 - 220 pages
...called to be a light to the nations, to bless all families of the earth. God called Abraham so that "in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (Gen. 12:3). God works with this people in love and judgment and mercy, but the history of that work is available... | |
 | Bruce R. Booker - 1993 - 84 pages
...paramount and it behooves the nation and the individual to do what God wants. When God says to Abram, "I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you" (Gen. 12:3a NKJ), it behooves the nation and the individual to bless Abraham through his descendants.... | |
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