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Genesis 17:1–3

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AND when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
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From verse 1

  1. Philippians 4:13Rank 1 from verse 1
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    13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

  2. Ephesians 3:20Rank 2 from verse 1
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    20Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

  3. Luke 1:6Rank 3 from verse 1
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    6And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

  4. Genesis 18:14Rank 4 from verse 1
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    14Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

  5. Genesis 6:9Rank 5 from verse 1
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    9¶ These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

  6. Psalms 116:9Rank 6 from verse 1
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    9I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

  7. Matthew 5:48Rank 7 from verse 1
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    48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

  8. Isaiah 38:3Rank 8 from verse 1
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    3And said, Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

  9. Job 1:1Rank 9 from verse 1
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    1THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

  10. Deuteronomy 18:13Rank 10 from verse 1
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    13Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.

  11. Matthew 19:26Rank 11 from verse 1
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    26But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

  12. 2 Kings 20:3Rank 12 from verse 1
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    3I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

  13. Genesis 28:3Rank 13 from verse 1
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    3And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

  14. 1 Kings 3:6Rank 14 from verse 1
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    6And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

  15. Jeremiah 32:17Rank 15 from verse 1
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    17Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:

  16. Micah 6:8Rank 16 from verse 1
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    8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

  17. Genesis 35:11Rank 17 from verse 1
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    11And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

  18. Hebrews 7:25Rank 18 from verse 1
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    25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

  19. Genesis 48:15Rank 19 from verse 1
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    15¶ And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

  20. Genesis 5:24Rank 20 from verse 1
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    24And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

  21. Hebrews 12:28Rank 21 from verse 1
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    28Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

  22. Acts 24:16Rank 22 from verse 1
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    16And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

  23. Acts 23:1Rank 23 from verse 1
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    1AND Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

  24. Deuteronomy 10:17Rank 24 from verse 1
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    17For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

  25. Exodus 6:3Rank 25 from verse 1
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    3And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

  26. Genesis 12:7Rank 26 from verse 1
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    7And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.

  27. Genesis 18:1Rank 27 from verse 1
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    1AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

  28. Numbers 11:23Rank 28 from verse 1
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    23And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord’s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.

  29. 1 Kings 2:4Rank 29 from verse 1
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    4That the Lord may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

  30. Daniel 4:35Rank 30 from verse 1
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    35And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

  31. Genesis 12:1Rank 31 from verse 1
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    1NOW the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

  32. Genesis 16:16Rank 32 from verse 1
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    16And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

  33. Job 11:7Rank 33 from verse 1
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    7Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

  34. Genesis 5:22Rank 34 from verse 1
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    22And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

  35. Psalms 115:3Rank 35 from verse 1
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    3But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

  36. 1 Kings 8:25Rank 36 from verse 1
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    25Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

From verse 2

  1. Genesis 17:4–6Rank 1 from verse 2
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    4As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

    5Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

    6And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

  2. Genesis 12:2Rank 2 from verse 2
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    2And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

  3. Genesis 13:16Rank 3 from verse 2
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    16And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

  4. Genesis 15:18Rank 4 from verse 2
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    18In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

  5. Psalms 105:8–11Rank 5 from verse 2
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    8He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

    9Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;

    10And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

    11Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

  6. Genesis 22:17Rank 6 from verse 2
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    17That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

  7. Galatians 3:17–18Rank 7 from verse 2
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    17And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

    18For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

  8. Genesis 9:9Rank 8 from verse 2
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    9And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

From verse 3

  1. Genesis 17:17Rank 1 from verse 3
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    17Then 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?

  2. Judges 13:20Rank 2 from verse 3
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    20For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.

  3. 1 Kings 18:39Rank 3 from verse 3
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    39And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.

  4. Joshua 5:14Rank 4 from verse 3
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    14And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?

  5. Matthew 17:6Rank 5 from verse 3
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    6And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.

  6. Numbers 16:45Rank 6 from verse 3
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    45Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

  7. Revelation 1:17Rank 7 from verse 3
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    17And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

  8. Daniel 10:9Rank 8 from verse 3
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    9Yet heard I the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.

  9. Daniel 8:17–18Rank 9 from verse 3
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    17So he came near where I stood: and when he came, I was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.

    18Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.

  10. Exodus 3:6Rank 10 from verse 3
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    6Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

  11. Ezekiel 1:28Rank 11 from verse 3
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    28As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

  12. Ezekiel 3:23Rank 12 from verse 3
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    23Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.

  13. Leviticus 9:23–24Rank 13 from verse 3
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    23And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the people.

    24And there came a fire out from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.

  14. Numbers 14:5Rank 14 from verse 3
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    5Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

  15. Numbers 16:22Rank 15 from verse 3
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    22And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

  16. Ezekiel 9:8Rank 16 from verse 3
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    8¶ And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

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Genesis 17:1

COMBINED MEANING

old

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1. Advanced in age or existing for a long time. 2. Of the stated or specified age. 3. Ancient, former, previous, or worn.

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COMBINED MEANING

appeared

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1. Came into sight or presence; became visible or manifest. 2. Seemed or had an outward appearance.

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before

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Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank.

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thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

perfect

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Complete, whole, sound, mature, upright, fully fitted, finished, exact, or lacking nothing required for the person, work, knowledge, state, purpose, or standard in view; to perfect is to bring to that intended completion or maturity.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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Genesis 17:2

COMBINED MEANING

make

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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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covenant

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Sense 1: A binding agreement, promise, pledge, or appointed order. Sense 2: The stated words, terms, testimony, or written record of such an agreement or promise.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Genesis 17:3

COMBINED MEANING

fell

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1. Came or went down; dropped, bowed, lay flat, collapsed, or lost an upright or raised place. 2. Was slain, died, was overthrown, or came under another's hand or power. 3. Came upon, seized, or affected someone or something, or entered a stated condition such as sickness, sleep, fear, lusting, or a trance. 4. Attacked or set upon. 5. Happened or came to pass. 6. Joined, yielded, went over, or departed from a person, side, office, or former standing. 7. Was assigned or determined by lot or portion. 8. As the present verb fell, to cut or bring down a tree or other standing thing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

on

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1. At, upon, or in contact with the named place, object, side, or time. 2. Toward, against, concerning, depending upon, or directed to the named person or thing. 3. Forward or continuing; in joined expressions such as go on, put on, and lay hold on, the other words supply the particular action.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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face

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The front of the head and its countenance or expression; the front, surface, outward appearance, presence, view, or personally known identity of a person, place, or thing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

talked

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Past-tense or past-participial form of talk (to speak or converse; speech or conversation).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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17:1AND when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

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17:2And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

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17:3And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,

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17:4As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

17:5Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

17:6And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

17:8And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

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