26 Bible Verses about Abraham, Testing And Victory

So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.

When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; now he was a priest of God Most High.

After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying,
“Do not fear, Abram,
I am a shield to you;
Your reward shall be very great.”

Then he believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.

So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.

And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her sight. May the Lord judge between you and me.”

Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him,
“I am God Almighty;
Walk before Me, and be blameless.

God said further to Abraham, “Now as for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

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

Now the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.

Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off.

Now Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord;

Thus it came about, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he sojourned in Gerar.

Then the Lord took note of Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had promised.

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

Now it came about at that time that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “God is with you in all that you do;

Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

Now it came about after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

Now 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 the Lord had blessed Abraham in every way.

Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.