Hebrews 6:12 That
ye be not slothful,
but followers of them who through
faith and patience
inherit the promises.
Genesis 12:2-
3 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and
thou shalt be a blessing: ...
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and
in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 15:2-
6 And Abram said, Lord GOD,
what wilt thou give me, seeing I go
childless, and
the steward of my house [
is] this Eliezer of Damascus? ... And
he believed in the LORD; and
he counted it to him for righteousness.
Genesis 17:16-
17 And I will bless her, and
give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall
be [a mother] of nations;
kings of people shall be of her. ... Then Abraham
fell upon his face, and
laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [
a child] be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Genesis 21:2-
7 For Sarah
conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age,
at the set time of which God had spoken to him. ... And she said,
Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck?
for I have born [
him] a son in his old age.
Exodus 1:7 And the children of Israel were
fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Habakkuk 2:2-
3 And the LORD answered me, and said,
Write the vision, and
make [
it] plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. ... For
the vision [
is] yet for an appointed time,
but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry,
wait for it; because
it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Romans 4:17-
25 (As it is written,
I have made thee a father of many nations,)
before him whom he believed, [
even] God,
who quickeneth the dead, and
calleth those things which be not as though they were. ...
Who was delivered for our offences,
and was raised again for our justification.