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Abraham Intercedes for Sodom (Genesis 18:16-33)

Abraham Study Guide (Week 9) SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him. (Genesis 18:20) Far …

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Abraham Eats With God (Genesis 18:1-15)

Abraham Study Guide (Week 8) SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. (Genesis 18:1) Is there anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to …

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Abraham and Circumcision (Genesis 17)

Abraham Study Guide (Week 7) SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. (Genesis 17:5) And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout …

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Sarai and Hagar (Genesis 16)

Abraham Study Guide (Week 6) SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.”  (Genesis 16:13) But God shows his love for us in that while we were …

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The Abrahamic Covenant (Genesis 15)

Abraham Study Guide (Week 5) SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.  (Genesis 15:6) But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him …

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Abraham and Melchizedek (Genesis 14)

Abraham Study Guide (Week 4) SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.) (Genesis 14:18) We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus …

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Abraham and Lot (Genesis 13)

Abraham Study Guide (Week 3) SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, for we are kinsmen.” (Genesis 13:8) The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look …

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Introduction to Abraham: the Man of Faith

Genesis is a big book. It contains fifty chapters, which would take a significant amount of time to work straight through. Fortunately, Genesis is composed of two major parts. The first part is found in chapters 1-11. This is called the primeval history, and it covers four gigantic, earth-shaping events: Creation, the Fall, the Flood, …

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Study Guide: The Conversion of Abraham (Genesis 12:1-9)

Abraham Study Guide (Week 1) SUGGESTED VERSES FOR MEMORIZATION & MEDITATION Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. (Genesis 12:1) So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five …

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