22 Bible Verses about Abraham, New Testament References

Your forefather Abraham exulted in the hope of seeing my day. He has seen it and is glad of it."

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is just the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that He was winning and baptizing more disciples than John --

Was not our forefather Abraham shown to be upright by his good deeds, namely, by offering Isaac his son upon the altar?

Stop talking against one another, brothers. Whoever is in the habit of talking against a brother or of criticizing his brother is criticizing and condemning the law. But if you are in the habit of criticizing the law, you are not a practicer but a critic of the law.

For every kind of beasts and birds, of reptiles and sea animals, can be, or have been, tamed by man;

the oath which He swore to our forefather Abraham,

And you are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the sacred compact which God made with your forefathers, when He said to Abraham: 'All the families of the earth are to be blessed through your posterity.'

for the man on whom the wonderful cure had been performed was more than forty years old.

And the patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

The beggar looked at them, supposing that he was going to get something from them.

"Once there was a rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and live in dazzling luxury every day.

By faith Abraham, on being called, obeyed in starting off for a country which he was to receive as his own, and he did it in spite of the fact that he did not know where he was going.

The family tree of Jesus Christ, a descendant of David, a descendant of Abraham.

Because the Scripture foresaw that God would bring the heathen into right standing with Himself on condition of faith, He beforehand proclaimed the good news to Abraham in the promise, "It is through you that all the heathen will be blessed."

Then what are we to say about our forefather Abraham?

I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their seats at the feast with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, 'in the kingdom of heaven,

Afterward he received the mark of circumcision as God's seal of his right standing with Him on condition of faith which he had before he was circumcised, that he might be the forefather of all who have faith while still uncircumcised, that they might have their faith credited to them as right standing with God;

So you see, it is the men of faith who are the real descendants of Abraham.

For the Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave girl, the other by a free woman.

And I might almost say, Levi too, who now collects the tenth, through Abraham paid the tenth,

For this is the way the pious women of olden times, who set their hope on God, used to adorn themselves.