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"And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you, and to your seed after you". Genesis 17:7/8 [ 8 ] " There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from ...
"And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you." [12] Other Torah verses about chosenness, "And you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation" [13]
The Noahic covenant recounted in Genesis 9:9-17 applies to all of humanity and all other living creatures. [9] In this covenant with all living creatures, God promises never again to destroy all life on Earth by flood [ 10 ] and creates the rainbow as the sign of this "everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that ...
Genesis 17:7; Everlasting: it is not replaced by any later covenant. Genesis 17:7; Accepted by faith. Genesis 15:6; The external sign of entering into the Abrahamic covenant was circumcision. Genesis 17:10, but it has to be matched by an internal change, the circumcision of the heart. Jeremiah 4:4, Philippians 3:3
God again appears to Abram, and enters into a personal covenant with him securing Abram's future: God promises him a numerous progeny, changes his name to "Abraham" and that of Sarai to "Sarah," and institutes the circumcision of all males as an eternal sign of the covenant. PEOPLE: Abram - יהוה YHWH. PLACES: Canaan. RELATED ARTICLES ...
Adam Harwood notes that the doctrine of covenant succession is derived from the statement 1 Corinthians 7:14 that the children of believers are "holy". [9] Rayburn also appeals to Genesis 17:7 ("I will be a God to you and to your descendants after you"), [10] and argues that "it is emphatically clear from Deuteronomy to Proverbs to Ephesians that nurture, not evangelism, is the paradigm of ...
In Judaism, "chosenness" is the belief that the Jews, via descent from the ancient Israelites, are the chosen people, i.e., chosen to be in a covenant with God.The idea of the Israelites being chosen by God is found most directly in the Book of Deuteronomy, [4] where it is applied to Israel at Mount Sinai upon the condition of their acceptance of the Mosaic covenant between themselves and God.
Abraham agreed only after God told him that "in Isaac your seed shall be called" and that God would "make a nation of the son of the bondwoman" Ishmael, since he was a descendant of Abraham (Genesis 21:11–13), God having previously told Abraham "I will establish My covenant with [Isaac]", while also making promises concerning the Ishmaelite ...