Genesis 15:5
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5 He took him outside and said: Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so, he added, will your descendants be.(A)
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Exodus 32:13
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13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying,(A) ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’”
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Luke 1:73
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73 and of the oath he swore to Abraham our father,(A)
and to grant us that,
Romans 4:13
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Inheritance Through Faith. 13 It was not through the law that the promise was made to Abraham and his descendants that he would inherit the world, but through the righteousness that comes from faith.(A)
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Hebrews 6:13-14
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God’s Promise Immutable. 13 [a](A)When God made the promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, “he swore by himself,” 14 and said, “I will indeed bless you and multiply” you.(B)
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Hebrews 11:12
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12 So it was that there came forth from one man, himself as good as dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore.(A)
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