22 Bible Verses about Abraham, New Testament References

Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; and he did see it, and was glad."

The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes, or where it goes; it is the same with every one that owes his birth to the Spirit."

Now, when the Master heard that the Pharisees had been told that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

Look at our ancestor, Abraham. Was not it the result of his actions that he was pronounced righteous after he had offered his son, Isaac, on the altar?

Do not disparage one another, Brothers. He who disparages his Brother, or passes judgment on his Brother, disparages the Law and passes judgment on the Law. But, if you pass judgment on the Law, you are not obeying it, but judging it.

For while all sorts of beasts and birds, and of reptiles and creatures in the sea, are tameable, and actually have been tamed by man,

This was the oath which he swore to our forefather Abraham--

You yourselves are the heirs of the Prophets, and heirs, too, of the Covenant which God made with your ancestors, when he said to Abraham--'In your descendants will all the nations of the earth be blessed.'

For the man who was the subject of this miraculous cure was more than forty years old.

The Patriarchs, out of jealousy, sold Joseph into slavery in Egypt; but God was with him,

The man was all attention, expecting to get something from them;

There was once a rich man, who dressed in purple robes and fine linen, and feasted every day in great splendor.

It was faith that enabled Abraham to obey the Call that he received, and to set out for the place which he was afterwards to obtain as his own; and he set out not knowing where he was going.

A genealogy of Jesus Christ, a descendant of David and Abraham.

And Scripture, foreseeing that God would pronounce the Gentiles righteous as the result of faith, foretold the Good News to Abraham in the words--'Through thee all the Gentiles shall be blessed.'

What then, it may be asked, are we to say about Abraham, the ancestor of our nation?

Yes, and many will come in from East and West and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven;

Not after, but before. And it was as a sign of this that he received the rite of circumcision-to attest the righteousness due to the faith of an uncircumcised man-in order that he might be the father of all who have faith in God even when uncircumcised, that they also may be regarded by God as righteous;

You see, then, that those whose lives are based on faith are the Sons of Abraham.

Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one the child of the slave-woman and the other the child of the free woman.

Moreover, in a sense, even Levi, who is the receiver of the tithes, has, through Abraham, paid tithes;

It was by this that the holy women of old, who rested their hopes on God, adorned themselves; submitting to their husbands,