Cross references
Genesis 12:1
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
- a Cited in Acts 7:3
Genesis 12:1 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 12 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Hebrews 11:8 (63 votes) and Nehemiah 9:7 (33 votes). 33 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 9 to Revelation 18.
Which verses does Genesis 12:1 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Hebrews 11:863 votes
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
- Nehemiah 9:733 votes
You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
- Acts 7:2–633 votes
And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran, and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’ …
- Isaiah 51:225 votes
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
- Joshua 24:2–319 votes
And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods. But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,
- Genesis 11:31–3215 votes
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there. Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
- Luke 14:26–3315 votes
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple. And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple. …
- Genesis 15:714 votes
The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
- Ezekiel 33:2413 votes
“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’
- 2 Corinthians 6:1712 votes
“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
- Psalm 45:10–119 votes
- Isaiah 41:96 votes
- Revelation 18:43 votes
Which verses point to Genesis 12:1?
The 10 strongest of 33.