26 Bible Verses about Abraham, Testing And Victory

Then Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there not be quarreling between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we men [are] brothers.

When Abram heard that his {relative} was taken captive, he summoned his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen [of them], and he went in pursuit up to Dan.

And Melchizedek, the king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. (He was the priest of God Most High).

After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying: "Do not be afraid, Abram; I [am] your shield, [and] your reward [shall be] very great."

And he believed in Yahweh, and he reckoned it to him [as] righteousness.

And {in the course of time} Cain brought an offering from the fruit of the ground to Yahweh,

Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name [was] Hagar.

And Sarai said to Abram, "may my harm [be] upon you. {I had my servant sleep with you}, and [when] she saw that she had conceived, {she no longer respected me}. May Yahweh judge between me and you!"

When Abram [was] ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, "I [am] El-Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless

And God said to Abraham, "Now [as for] you, you must keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you, throughout their generations.

And God said to Abraham, "[as for] Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [shall be] her name.

And [as for] Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless him and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him {exceedingly}. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the female slave and one by the free woman.

And Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he was sitting in the doorway of the tent at the heat of the day.

Then the men set out from there, and they looked down upon Sodom. And Abraham went with them {to send them on their way}.

And Abraham arose early in the morning [and went] to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

And Abraham journeyed from there to the land of the Negev, and he settled between Kadesh and Shur. And he dwelled as an alien in Gerar.

And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said. And Yahweh did to Sarah as he had promised.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne Abraham, mocking.

And it happened [that] at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God [is] with you, in all that you do.

And it happened [that] after these things, God tested Abraham. And he said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I [am]."

And it happened [that] after these things, it was told to Abraham, "Look, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor:

And {Sarah lived} one hundred and twenty-seven years; [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.

Now Abraham [was] old, {advanced in age}, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in everything.

Now Abraham again took a wife, and her name [was] Keturah.