GENESIS 17:1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless." A farmer and his son were working together in the field. The father told the boy to throw all the large stones he...

GENESIS 16:5-6 Then Sarai said to Abram, “My wrong be upon you! I gave my maid into your embrace; and when she saw that she had conceived, I became despised in her eyes. The Lord judge between you and me. ” So Abram said to Sarai, “indeed your maid is...

GENESIS 16:1-2 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. And she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar. So Sarai said to Abram, “See now, the Lord has restrained me from bearing children. Please, go in to my maid; perhaps I shall obtain children by her. ”...

GENESIS 15:15-16 Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation [your descendants] shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete. For the most part, people are very...

GENESIS 15:13-14 Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with...

GENESIS 15:2-4 But Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?’’ Then Abram said, “Look, You have given me no offspring: indeed one born in my house is my heir!’’ And behold, the word of...

GENESIS 15:1 After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” Fear is everywhere. Even people who appear brave, if they’re honest, will admit to moments of immense fear. During World...

GENESIS 14:22-23 But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted my hand to the Lord, God Most High, the Possessor of heaven and earth, that I will take nothing, from a thread to a sandal strap, and that I will not take anything that Is yours, lest...

GENESIS 14:14 Now when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan. We live in violent times. The American Bar Association claims that crimes involving guns,...

GENESIS 13:14-15 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—north ward, southward, eastward, and westward; for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.’’ In late summer the...