Quotes About Faith

This is the account of Abrahamís son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarahís maidservant, bore to Abraham.

Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.

This is the account of Abrahamís son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,

Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,

When her time came to give birth, there were indeed twins in her womb.

The first one came out red, covered with hair like a fur coat; so they named him Esau.

After this, his brother came out grasping Esauís heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abrahamís time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

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.

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

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

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

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.”

Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his fatherís servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,