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Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 23:10-11 NLT
Ephron was sitting there among the others, and he answered Abraham as the others listened, speaking publicly before all the Hittite elders of the town. “No, my lord,” he said to Abraham, “please listen to me. I will give you the field and the cave. Here in the presence of my people, I give it to you. Go and bury your dead.”
Jan 14
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highlighted Genesis 23:7-9 NLT
Then Abraham bowed low before the Hittites and said, “Since you are willing to help me in this way, be so kind as to ask Ephron son of Zohar to let me buy his cave at Machpelah, down at the end of his field. I will pay the full price in the presence of witnesses, so I will have a permanent burial place for my family.”
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 23:5-6 NLT
The Hittites replied to Abraham, “Listen, my lord, you are an honored prince among us. Choose the finest of our tombs and bury her there. No one here will refuse to help you in this way.”
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 23:4 NLT
“Here I am, a stranger and a foreigner among you. Please sell me a piece of land so I can give my wife a proper burial.”
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 23:1-2 NLT
When Sarah was 127 years old, she died at Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron) in the land of Canaan. There Abraham mourned and wept for her.
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 22:23 NLT
(Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) In addition to these eight sons from Milcah,
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 22:20 NLT
Soon after this, Abraham heard that Milcah, his brother Nahor’s wife, had borne Nahor eight sons.
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 22:18 NLT
And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed—all because you have obeyed me.”
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 22:15-17 NLT
Then the angel of the LORD called again to Abraham from heaven. “This is what the LORD says: Because you have obeyed me and have not withheld even your son, your only son, I swear by my own name that I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies.
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 22:11-12 NLT
At that moment the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!” “Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 22:9-10 NLT
And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice. When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 22:7-8 NLT
Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?” “God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 22:5 NLT
“Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.”
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 22:3 NLT
The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about.
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 22:2 NLT
“Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Genesis 22:1 NLT
Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called. “Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.”
Jan 14
Marie.Irby
highlighted Romans 8:38-39 NLT
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jan 13
Marie.Irby
highlighted Romans 8:37 NLT
No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
Jan 13
Marie.Irby
highlighted Romans 8:34 NLT
Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
Jan 13
Marie.Irby
highlighted Romans 8:31 NLT
What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
Jan 13