Quotes About Trust

The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.

Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ëShe is my sisterí?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”

“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you

that you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”

And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,

Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.

His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”

So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”

But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”

Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”

But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”

So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

until your brotherís rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”