Genesis 26:5
Good News Translation
I will bless you, because Abraham obeyed me and kept all my laws and commands."

New Revised Standard Version
because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

Contemporary English Version
because Abraham did everything I told him to do.

New American Bible
this because Abraham obeyed me, keeping my mandate, my commandments, my ordinances, and my instructions.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.

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Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.

Genesis 12:4 So Abram went out as the Lord had commanded him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went forth from Haran.

Genesis 17:23 And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.

Genesis 18:19 For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

Genesis 22:16,18 By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake: . . .

Psalm 112:1,2 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments. . . .

Psalm 128:1-6 A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways. . . .

Matthew 5:19 He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 7:24 Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast and unmoveable: always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

Hebrews 11:8 By faith he that is called Abraham obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing whither he went.

James 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar?

Context
God's Promise to Isaac
4And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. 5Because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my precepts and commandments, and observed my ceremonies and laws.
Cross References
Genesis 22:16
By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:

Genesis 22:18
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Genesis 26:6
So Isaac abode in Gerara.

Genesis 26:4
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