22 Bible Verses about Abraham, New Testament References

Your forefather Abraham exulted at the thought of seeing my coming. He has seen it, and it has made him glad."

The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

Was not our forefather Abraham made upright for his good deeds, for offering his son Isaac on the altar?

Do not talk against one another, brothers. Whoever talks against a brother or condemns his brother talks against the Law, and condemns the Law. But if you condemn the Law you are not an observer of the Law but its judge.

For every kind of animal and bird, reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by man,

"And the oath that he swore to our forefather Abraham,

You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the agreement that God made with your forefathers when he said to Abraham, 'Through your posterity all the families of the earth will be blessed.'

for the man on whom this wonder of healing had been done was more than forty years old.

The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But God was with him,

He looked at them, supposing that they were going to give him something.

"There was once a rich man, who used to dress in purple and fine linen, and to live in luxury every day.

Faith enabled Abraham to obey when God summoned him to leave his home for a region which he was to have for his own, and to leave home without knowing where he was going.

The ancestry of Jesus Christ, who was descended from David, who was descended from Abraham.

The Scripture foresaw that God would accept the heathen as upright in consequence of their faith, and preached the good news in advance to Abraham in the words, "All the heathen will be blessed through you."

Then what are we to say about our ancestor Abraham?

And I tell you, many will come from the east and from the west and take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven,

and he was afterward given the mark of circumcision as the stamp of God's acknowledgment of the uprightness based on faith that was his before he was circumcised, so that he should be the forefather of all who, without being circumcised, have faith and so are credited with uprightness,

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

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

In one way of putting it, Levi himself, the collector of the tithes, through Abraham paid him tithes,

It was in that way in ancient times that those pious women who set their hopes on God made themselves attractive. They were submissive to their husbands,