Quotes about Trust
Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
— Genesis 20:2
Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
— Genesis 20:5
Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
— Genesis 20:6
Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
— Genesis 20:11
So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
— Genesis 20:13
Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
— Genesis 21:1
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
— Genesis 21:14
When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
— Genesis 21:15
Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
— Genesis 21:19
At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.
— Genesis 21:22
Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”
— Genesis 21:23
And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”
— Genesis 21:24