Hebrews 6:15 Cross References - VIN

¹⁵ And so, after waiting patiently, Abraham received what [God] had promised.

² "I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name great. You will be a blessing. ³ And I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse. And all families of the earth will be blessed in you."

² Abram said, Sovereign LORD, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus? ³ And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage. ⁴ Behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir. ⁵ And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward the heavens and count the stars if you are able to count them." And he said to him, "So shall your offspring be." ⁶ And he believed the LORD; and he reckoned it to him [as] righteousness.

¹⁶ "I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her." ¹⁷ Abraham fell to his face. He laughed and said to himself: "Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"

² Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age. It was at the very time God had promised him. ³ Abraham gave the name Isaac (he laughs) to the son Sarah bore him. ⁴ When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him as God had commanded him. ⁵ Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. ⁶ Sarah said: "God brought me laughter. Everyone who hears about this will laugh on account of me." ⁷ She added: "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."

⁷ And the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied and were many and were very, very numerous, and the land was filled with them.

² The LORD answered me, "Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it. ³ For the vision is still for an appointed time, but it speaks to the end, and it does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it; because it will surely come. It will not tarry.

¹⁷ As it is written, "I have made you a father of many nations." This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were. ¹⁸ Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” ¹⁹ Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb. ²⁰ Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, ²¹ being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised. ²² This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness." ²³ But the words, "it was reckoned to him," were written not for his sake alone, ²⁴ But also for us. It shall be credited to those of us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. ²⁵ He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

¹² Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.